The Duggars

Contention 1:If that was their only reason for having kids, nobody in their right mind would consider it worth it. Neither would they. It's not about the fame or the money. Rebuttal 1: If they didn't want fame, then they wouldn't have a blog about them. They also would have said no to a T.V show. Contention 2: A little stress isn't bad for your well-being. It clearly hasn't been enough stress to drive any of them bonkers. Rebuttal 2: You didn't refute my point about privacy. Contention 3: Au Contraire, they are friends with the Bates family, a family which also consists of 19 kids. And I'm sure they're friends with other families as well. Rebuttal 3: True, but because you know this doesn't this show privacy issues. Also probably the Duggar kids are only friends with one or two of the Bates family kids, that doesn't seem like a lot to me. Contention 4: They won't be followed around their entire lives. When the show comes to a conclusion everyone will forget all about the Duggars. And with their strong conservative Christian upbringing, there's unlikely to be an teen pregnancy or anything like that in the family. Rebuttal 4: They won't be forgotten for a while, when people hate things they have a tendency not to disappear, and many people hate the family, which could harm the children. Contention 5: The kid who did the "Leave Britney Spears Alone" video also has a Wikipedia article, but probably no one would recognize him if they saw him walking down the street. Rebuttal 5: First of all the person who did the "Leave Britney Spears Alone" video is a man, this makes me doubt your sources. Also to have a short article on wikipidea about you have to be known by thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people. Contention 6: You can't keep pretending if you're under the camera 24/7. If they weren't happy it'd show. And maybe they don't enjoy the publicity, but the show's about over anyway, if it isn't already. Rebuttal 6: There fame isn't though. Like I said earlier, hated things tend to keep thier fame. Contention 7: Ah, so now this debate comes down to homeschooling. My intention is not to offend you or insult you, but I was homeschooled and you probably went to public school...and my grammar seems to be better than yours. I was Home-Schooled, and I can spell just fine. I know about as much about science as the average Joe does. I'm as well-educated as any Public-Schooled person. You see, public schools and homeschools can have access to the same curriculum. What it boils down to is the way it's used. If the parents tell their homeschooled children to study this this during this day, well, that's what the public school students experience. Not to mention public schools are getting less and less efficient as time goes by. And they have problems like bullying, suicide, students "hooking up," drugs, shootings...you name the problem and public schools have it. Granted, homeschooling takes a risk. If the parents don't know what they're doing then their children's education will suffer. But the Duggar parents are probably good enough at schooling their children and making good use of school curriculum. After all, their children are not uneducated hillbillies. Jim Bob Duggar served in the Arkansas House of Representatives and now he's a real estate agent and investor. Stupid people don't become Representatives. And even without education you can spend the rest of your life flipping burgers and emptying somebody's garbage cans. I conclude that the Duggar family is better off than many families in America today. Of course, it's okay to shudder at the thought of having 18 siblings. I know I would. Contention: You did not refute my point about there mother having to teach so many different things to so many children. While she is trying to teach calculus to one she might be trying to teach the alphabet to another. How about foreign languages and drama, I doubt they get that option. Home Schooling might work for families with one or two kids, but I doubt it works for a family with so many children. Also their mother teaches them no their father. Some smart people and marry stupid ones. Your spelling isn't better than mine though. For your information home schooled has a space. Also you are making generic statements about public schools with no proof. Not all public schools have drugs, the kids get the drugs of campus, not at schools, and are you telling me that someone can easily walk into a public schools and shoot everyone there, but not walk into the Druggar's house and shoot them? Also flipping burgers isn't a good way to live.