19 Kids and Counting

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Monday 10:00 PM on TLC Premiered Sep 29, 2008 In Season

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19 Kids and Counting
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AIRED ON 5/21/2013

Season 11 : Episode 32

Show Summary

Childhood sweethearts Jim Bob and Michelle see children as gifts, and after over 20 years of marriage, they have received 19 gifts of ten boys and nine girls. This means that Michelle has been pregnant for nearly half her life. TLC brings this Arkansas family phenomenon into your home with this documentary series.
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  • Dishonorable charater of commenters

    10
    @Travisty,catlazenby,demon853,speedracertng, you all show the kind of upbringing you all had by the total lack of honorable character you all show! You all write like a bunch of little dictators in training! Are you all too stupid to respect another family's choices that they would not impose you? To me from your dishonorable lack of character I suspect so
  • stupid so called *parents*

    1.0
    i agree with the dude above me the girls should have more freedom their parents have all these kids and make them take care of each other while they keep getting pregnant. come on guys HELP OUT. and not to mention whenever theres a big project the dad takes advantage of it and gets all the kids to do it like theyre freakin slaves.and if one kid gets sick then they all do. if the girls have to do all that work they should at least be able to wear a pair of shorts not skirts down to their ankles! hello? its not the 1800's anymore! and u would think the girls do the housework and the boys do the tough stuff but nope! the girls have to do THAT TOO!moreless
  • Beyond awful

    1.0
    These people are b@tsh*t crazy. Apparently these backwater hillbillies believe that they have the obligation (not the right) to pump out as many kids as humanly possible and then have scientists and doctors help them churn out a couple more. Seriously, if everyone converted to their cult, the human race would be extinct in a generation or two. But what's more irresponsible than mass-producing and uneducating 19 kids is the glorifying of this sociopathic behavior. This show cuts out any footage that could imply that this type of parenting creates some pretty messed-up kids (including alluding to a boot camp set up for kids in this cult who may have committed some unmentioned-but-seemingly-creepy-sexual-assault-type 'sins') Yikes. I guess home-schoolin' by mommy-no-degree isn't as good as advertised.moreless
  • Some people can't get pregnant and have kids, and these people have 19

    1.0
    i think that it's ok to have a big family, but my version of big is 5 kids, not 19 kids. i understand that they are religious people and they want god to choose how many kids they have, but 19 is just out of hand. there are some people who want more than anything to have a baby but for whatever reason, they can't get pregnant and they can't have any kids, but the duggers seem to think it's ok to have 19, i'm not saying it's the duggeers fault that some people can't have kids and they can, but it's gotten out of hand. The older kids are the ones who end up looking after the younger kids a lot of the time, because the parents don't have time to be looking after all these kids, no parent does, which is why i think this is wrong, you can't give you full attention, and you can't properly parent all 19 kids.moreless
  • Too much of too many....

    4.0
    I used to be very intrigued with this family. I caught their earlier episodic specials, went onto their family website and just marveled at the family's tenacity, drive and steadfastness. I never expected them to become a weekly series. While these episodes have given us a bit of a peek at individual personalities, it's concept is just way over done. I am sure their are families out there that revel in the coservative Duggar views and Duggar life style. Unfortunately - as do the Duggars - they probably are not watching television. After watching the episode where the oldest brings home his fiancee and all the emphasis put on not touching, and not kissing, and internet proposals for the other girls, I just wonder if they are just in denial that there is a 'real world' out there. Cousin Amy was a breath of fresh air. I would take the snarking Roloffs and the squabbling Gosselins over this crew anyday!moreless
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      Baby 19 was delievered last night via emergency c-section. The girl named Josie is 3 months early and is in the NICU. Souce:http:/...
      12/20/09
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    • Song from Grand Duggar Commercial?
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOR-bwtNP2IDoes anyone recognize the song playing in the background of this trailer?
      12/02/09
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    • Identifying a Particular Episode
      There was an episode where the Duggars went to (I believe) a car lot. Also, at the car lot, there was a group of three people: tw...
      11/30/09
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    • Anyone else not intrigued?
      As I stated in my review, I used to be very interested in this family. Their occasional 'specials' had a lot more bang than this w...
      11/02/09
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    Game Show, Reality

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    cultural phenomenon, extraordinary situations, kids hijinks, ladies man, the middle class