How Long Until The Duggar Family Is More Populous Than Vermont?

The Duggar family of TLC fame just announced that they are expecting their first grandchild. Michelle and Jim Bob Duggar have 18 children ranging from 0 to 21 years old. Their eldest, Josh, was married in September and will welcome the littlest member of the brood just one month after his first anniversary.

The Duggars live in northwest Arkansas and can be seen on TLC's hit "18 Kids and Counting." Michelle Duggar gave birth in December to their youngest child, Jordyn-Grace, and as the title of their show suggests, it may not be her last. Assuming they do stop at 18, and assuming each of their kids have the same amount of children (which are both big 'ifs') how long until those with Dugger blood outsize the population of America's smallest state?

After the next generation of Duggars breeds at this rate, there will be 324 members of the clan (not counting the husbands and wives that married in). The third generation will have 5,832 members, the fourth will have 104,976, and the fifth will have 1,889,568...almost three times the population of Vermont. This would mean...

• There would be one Duggar for every two square miles of America.
• If all the Duggars earned the average American salary, they would collect $85 billion a year before taxes, enough to bailout AIG.
• There would be more Duggars than Muslims in America.

In one more generation...

• There would be almost as many Duggars in America as African Americans.
• Duggars would outnumber lawyers 42 to 1.
• There would be more Duggars than Canadians.

Of course it would take the Duggar family at least 200-300 years to breed this much, and the number of African Americans, Muslims, and lawyers could also grow. These statistics require an amazing amount of hypotheticals, they are just meant to give you an idea of how fast a family can expand when they start having kids young and keep going!


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Comments

[afgail]

05:56 AM on 04/23/2009

They are truly warped and no doubt grossly under educated. If the Duggans are homeschool­ing the kids the mother is truly irresponsi­ble. All the older children are in fact surrogate parents because the biological parents have evaded responsibi­lity for their choices. God didn't give her all those kids - biology did!

[Clavis]

01:31 PM on 04/22/2009

Her uterus must be like football leather at this point...

[Yalegirl03]

02:28 PM on 04/21/2009

That just sounds like an awful lifestyle. I've watched the show once or twice, and as a Christian, they creep me the hell out, especially the father. I couldn't imagine being constantly knocked up like she is and having my life revolve around popping out more babies. If you love children and believe in raising children in a nuturing home, why not adopt children instead? My grandma had 11 kids, but that was before birth control and condoms. To have 18 in this day and age just seems unthinkabl­e.

[jacobomorales]

01:25 PM on 04/17/2009

There should be a new TV Show called, "America's World of Freak Families", kind of like the Adams Family and My 8 kids.

[DiscernTruth]

11:48 AM on 04/16/2009

How long do I have to be exposed to this picture of Jim Bob and the Bobbettes on the comedy link?

[zola77]

03:02 AM on 04/18/2009

Bwahaha!

[damilitantone]

10:18 AM on 04/16/2009

Sounds like another reality show.

[bulldoglover06]

02:40 PM on 04/15/2009

Give your body a rest!!!! Enough is Enough

[LoveAlaska]

01:14 PM on 04/15/2009

Before the tv show, how did they get money, weren't they supported by the State? Sometimes having kids for the sake of having kids just doesn't seem right.

[trisha08]

08:27 AM on 04/15/2009

The creep me out. Those kids are little brainwashe­d robots, and the parents...­..shiver,s­hiver.

[nanton29]

01:06 AM on 04/15/2009

I wonder if ACS would've stepped in to remove the kids if it was a black family ?

[Shavano]

12:38 AM on 04/15/2009

Holy cow, they could start their own political party, move into one state and...oh, I'm sorry I was thinking of Utah.

[lynettema]

11:45 PM on 04/14/2009

I don't know why Mrs. duggars uterus isn't hanging down to her knees. Sorry. But I really do wonder how she could physically birth that many children and not suffer some physical issues.

[jacobomorales]

01:21 PM on 04/17/2009

What the picture does not show is that she is chain linked to the bed like the creature in "Alien Vs Predator". One day all the creatures will be unleashed against the world and who knows what will happen next.

[No Longer Quivering]

07:56 PM on 04/14/2009

Oh how I used to admire and practicall­y worship Michelle Duggar ~ she was my role model ~ my inspiratio­n.

Our family shared a lot of the same beliefs ~ we were committed to letting the Lord "plan our family" ~ and even though I had c-section deliveries and complicati­ons which nearly killed me ~ I would have continued to live and espouse the lifestyle ~ that is, until the pressure of being perfect drove my oldest daughter to despair. When she ended up in the psych ward after attempting to kill herself ~ I finally woke up to what a warped and twisted belief system and lifestyle we were following.

I am no longer having all the babies which "the Lord chooses to bless me with" ~ I am no longer striving to be the perfect godly wife and mother ~ I am no longer homeschool­ing (brainwash­ing) my kids ~ and I am NO LONGER QUIVERING: http://2sp­b.blogspot­.com/

[FabulousAt52]

09:36 AM on 04/22/2009

No Longer Quivering-

Let me welcome you to the world of Independen­ce, self-worth­, personal rights and freedoms!
Many Blessings, Sistah!

[Telemachus]

07:04 PM on 04/14/2009

Welcome to Ponzi Planet -- where there's plenty for everyone until suddenly it's all gone.

These two are the Madoffs of overpopula­tion.

[TheChemist]

05:50 PM on 04/14/2009

One kid for every sex act. Sounds (christian­) right to me...