A Family with Sixteen Children - a Look at the Duggar Family

Duggar Family Hopes for #17

Anyone who has witnessed the miracle of the Duggar Family of Arkansas on Discovery Health channel knows that Jim Bob and Michelle are not your typical set of parents. With sixteen healthy, vibrant children ranging from toddler to eighteen, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar have been in the American spotlight since their pregnancy with baby #14, when the Discovery Health Channel featured the Duggar Family in a documentary called, “Fourteen Children and Pregnant Again.” This whimsical account of their life has been a subject of both faith and controversy.

Through the documentary, and the three that followed, the Duggars allow viewers to take a peek into their private lives, an existence filled with a strong faith in God and a lot of ingenuity. In order for the Duggar Family to get through the week, a complex web of micromanagement, discipline, and the all-important buddy system help the family cope a life with a constant flow of brand new faces and the challenges a super-sized family (with only two parents) will face.

Jim Bob Duggar and wife Michelle dote on every new miracle. They absolutely adore children and would always welcome more in their life. Baby 16, born in October of 2005 brought intense media attention to accommodate those who followed the Duggar Family’s highly publicized frequent additions. And with good reason, as America’s are fascinated with the Duggar Family, their “jurisdiction” style chore list, the fact that this family of eighteen is debt free, how Michelle can manage to homeschool, and how on earth they manage to feed that huge family on under $2000 a month.