The Duggars- Children Hoarders Essays - Family, Social Psychology

The Duggars-Children Hoarders Families are the life-blood of humankind?s sustainability. Before World War II, many households in the United States were an extended family or multigenerational. These units consisted of parents, their offspring, the grandparents, aunts and uncles. The beginning of suburbia in the 1950s gave rise to a progressive shift to nuclear families made up of the mother, father and children. Not unlike previous generations, the trend now is swinging back to the extended family arrangement for many different circumstances, including economics. We also have the flip side of the coin--the modern family. The modern family in America runs the whole gamut from the stay-at-home mother, the bread-winner father and the two point three children to same sex couples that have adopted children to complete their family tree. Then there is the Duggar family, a totally off-the-chart clan that has redefined the term ?family.? The Duggars, have been made famous because of their seemingly boundless brood. They further their status by allowing their children to become ?reality stars? of The Learning Channel?s (TLC) production of ?19 Kids and Counting.? It all appears very innocent and light within the thirty minutes of the well edited weekly show, but underneath the smiles there are some dark secrets. This family is The parents, Jim Bob and Michelle,are exploiting of the children for financial gain---- that may be worthy of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). -Exploitation of children -Indoctrination rather than converting of children, built in groupies, 5th column group -Breed like rabbits- how many children will their children have? 5th column group- rate of reproduction- world domination -