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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]C9BL, no one is criticizing your lifestyle, we are criticizing the Duggars' lifestyle. But if you think the Duggar girls are being raised to be financially independent, you have been sniffing something other than "stinky diapers."[/quote]

This.  They are bright and capable and hardworking but have been raised to be barefoot and pregnant and dependent and submissive.  It is a crime, a form of child abuse IMO to deny your children the opportunity to pursue careers, financial independence and options other than the ones you might want for them.  [/quote]

I have never watched the show, so I honestly don't know how this works: [b] do the parents forbid their grown children to attend college or work outside the home[/b]  If so, how is that enforced?  Or is it just that they raise their boys to value being businessmen more than college-educated, and their girls to value being mothers more than any other profession?

Or is it a belief that homeschooling itself precludes higher education or advanced careers?

Many of the comments collapse various opinions into one, generic anti-Duggar one, so it is hard to pull apart the actual facts of their upbringing from the outrage at said upbringing.  I would like to hear exactly how the older children are being held back by their parents, though.

--C9BL again

PS. I'm sorry if I was ranting and raving a bit...I'm taking a medication right now that makes me kind of extra crazy, with a capital C.  Even though I know that, objectively, I still start to unravel sometimes.[/quote]

Look, if you're qualified to homeschool your kids and you choose to do so, that's your own business. From what I can tell on the show, the kids receive a special online religious education, finish formal education at age 16, and then the girls turn around to teach the younger kids their lessons and take care of the household. The two oldest boys somehow have businesses, although the Duggars have made clear that they do not financially support them, it is unclear how they earned enough to purchase/start the business. The problem is that the girls were never presented with some sort of choice- and I can think of many that would be acceptable in Duggar culture- church youth leader, daycare teacher, nurse, etc. and were never given an opportunity to strike out on their own. They were too busy at home taking care of the younger children and running the homeschool. [/quote]

Michelle and Jim Bob were invited to appear on the Oprah show. During the taping, Oprah offered the two eldest daughters (Jana and Jill) full scholarships to become certified nurse midwives (their dream at the time). Jim Bob turned her down on their behalf, and refused to allow that segment to be aired.

The kids have no resources of their own or support for pursuing a higher education. The very idea is demonized. Even the elder girls, now in their 20s and years after "graduating", have no outside job experience, no money of their own, no bank account, no credit, no car in their own name, no assets of their own*, not even the clothes on their back belong to them (the family dresses out of a communal closet). Their social circle is limited to the tightly-constricted circle of like-minded Gothardites.

*Unless you count the cell phones they have so Daddy can keep tabs on them.[/quote]

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