For a group of people (people being CT members) so turned off by the attention this family is getting (as reflected by several other threads devoted to this family), I am actually surprised to see this family is, once again, getting air time on CT. As Chrisy said, I'm not paying their bill, so I don't get to vote. If I did get to vote, I would vote "I don't care, it doesn't affect me".
The responsibility these children have to one another is a good and healthy thing. If there is problem with kids today (rural, urban and otherwise), it is a total lack of responsibility. Many of us worked no less than these children, and consider it to be an advantage now ~ we were taught responsibility, pride in a job done right, that nothing easy is worth the effort, an excellent work ethic, the realization that our decisions and actions affect more than just ourselves, a healthy sense of obligation to the rights of others and the fact that we are not entitled to anything (let alone everything), an ability to separate want from need, separate privileges from rights, we learn that life is sometimes "no fair" and suck it up.
These parents are NOT doing their children an injustice, they are not making irresponsible choices, there are much bigger fish to fry if you want to get wrought up over something (and please do, some things actually deserve the passion I have read on here devoted to this family), and these children (based on what I have seen) will leave the world a better place than they found it. The parents are good and loving, they are kind and generous to their children, to each other and to their community. All children should be so lucky.
