Sistermoms to actual parents
Weird question I hope I can word it clearly. We all know the Duggars grew up with a kajillion siblings around at all times, but now most of them that are parents have more manageable numbers of kids. Isn't Jessa the only one with five or more?
My question is this: do they even know how to parent the amount of kids they do have? It seems like giving a child one on one attention from mom and dad would be foreign to them. They are used to sistermoms, and kids constantly having other siblings to play with, which likely wouldn't necessarily be the case for having 1-2 siblings. Aside from Jessa who's trying to have as many kids as possible, and Pest who obviously didn't care about/for his kids at all (or well enough), do you think they're halfway decent parents given their childhoods were so chaotic and exploitative? And given their actual parents barely parented them, if at all?
The boys were not brotherdads. Boob and Meech specifically "didn't let" them take care of any kids because they were afraid they'd violate their siblings like Pest did. Yes theoretically they were around others caring for kids but that doesn't mean they're capable of doing any of it or that they picked any of it up.