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The Duggar family are an Arkansas family, headed by Jim Bob Duggar and Michelle Duggar, who have been repeatedly featured in the news and entertainment media for having seventeen children. The family has been filmed for Discovery Health Channel and The Learning Channel television. On May 9, Michelle Duggar announced on the Today Show that she is pregnant with their 18th child and is due on New Years Day 2009.

This man and his wife both sell real estate for a living. Although, I doubt she sells much as she also homeschools all the kids!! What a job. Notice how neat their house is kept. The folks on the Today Show said that when this family left their green room (the place they go before they are on the show), it was cleaner than it was when they came. Shows it can be done with organization and I'm sure they have lots of that with a family that big. They also built their own home.

The Duggars' ten sons and seven daughters (including two sets of fraternal twins: one boy/girl set and one boy/boy set), all of whom have names which begin with the letter J, are as follows:

	Names	Date of Birth	Notes
1	Joshua James	—— March3,1988 (1988-03-03) (age 20)	—— oldest child; getting married 9/26/08 to Anna Keller
2	Jana Marie	——January12, 1990 (1990-01-12) (age 18)	—— Twin of John-David
3	John-David	—— January 12, 1990 (1990-01-12) (age 18)	—— Twin of Jana
4	Jill Michelle	—— May 17, 1991 (1991-05-17) (age 17)
5	Jessa Lauren	—— November 4, 1992
6	Jinger Nicole	—— December 21, 1993	—— Pronounced like "Ginger"
7	Joseph Garrett	—— January 20, 1995
8	Josiah Matthew	—— August 28, 1996
9	Joy-Anna	—— October 28, 1997
10	Jeremiah Robert	—— December 30, 1998	—— Twin of Jedidiah
11	Jedidiah Robert	—— December 30, 1998	—— Twin of Jeremiah
12	Jason Michael	—— April 21, 2000
13	James Andrew	—— July 7, 2001
14	Justin Samuel	—— November 15, 2002
15	Jackson Levi	—— May 23, 2004	—— Birth featured on Discovery Health Channel special
16	Johannah Faith	—— October 11, 2005	—— Birth featured on Discovery Health Channel special
17	Jennifer Danielle	—— August 2, 2007	—— Birth featured on Discovery Health Channel special
18	Junborn	—— due January 1, 2009	—— Announced May 9, 2008

Family life

Jim Bob Duggar and his wife Michelle, who was named Young Mother of the Year in Arkansas in 2004, are conservative Baptists who endorse the Quiverfl movement and the teachings of Bill Gothard. Mr. Duggar is a former state legislator who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. He is now a real estate agent.
Jim Bob Duggar and his wife report that their children are blessings from God, since his wife miscarried while on birth control and was able to conceive many more times once she stopped taking birth control!
The Duggars live debt-free, which Mr. Duggar has said is "the fruit of Jim Sammon's Financial Freedom Seminar" he attended years ago.
The Duggars raise their children using the buddy system, in which an older sibling raises a younger sibling, instead of the parents doing it themselves. The older buddy "will get the younger ones' meals." According to Mrs. Duggar, "They help them with their little phonics lessons and games during the day and help them practice their music lessons. They will play with them or help them pick out the color of their outfit that they want to wear that day, and just all of those types of things."

WOW What a Family? !