Family & Culture: Two Perspectives

Coby Dillard: "In Which I Enter The Culture Wars..."

The conservative Republican blogger is troubled by a new doll called Bebé Glotón out of Spain, which breastfeed and makes sucking sounds: "Yeah, you read that right. A doll that breastsfeeds, coming to a toy store near you…in time for the post-Labor Day Christmas displays. Just the thing to help little girls think that they’re ready to be mothers, in a country with the highest teen pregnancy rates in the world. Makes perfect sense. If little girls really want to know about parenthood, I suggest their parents require them to buy their doll’s clothes and other accessories with their own money. You know, actually teach some of the responsibilities that come with having children. Just a thought. Not that I’m telling anyone how to parent or anything."

More: "Course, maybe the company that’s making this had the sense to make a black version of the doll. Surely, the NAACP, Color of Change, and all these other organizations that claim to have black interests at heart will actually protest something meaningful, instead of just championing whatever PBO [President Barack Obama] happens to be talking about that day. Not holding my breath on that e-riot, though."

Ladyrayne: "Nineteen"

The moderate blogger comments on an American family with 19 children: "Good googly goo!!!!!! You’ve heard of the Duggars. You know the family from Arkansas who have 18 children and are featured in the TLC series 18 Kids and Counting. Well they’ve just announced that mom Michelle Duggar is expecting her 19th child. Yes I said 19th child. I guess TLC will have to change the name of the show to 19 Kids and Counting."

She continues her commentary: "I know that the Duggars have a right to have as many children as they want, they’re not living on the taxpayer’s expense and they live debt free in a house they built but isn’t 19 children a bit much? I can’t imagine what Michelle Duggar’s body is going through having all those children. Yes, having a family this large was the thing to do back in the old days but this is the 21st century. Who needs to have 19 kids in these modern times? I know I would go crazy living in a house with that many kids. Peace and quiet wouldn’t exist anymore. Anyway I wish them the best of luck."