Monday, June 22, 2009

Topic: Jon and Kate plus 8 A Family in Crisis

Since the First Episode appeared on The Discovery Health Channel "Surviving Sextuplets and Twins" I have watched the Gosselin Family and their 8 children. When this episode came out the sextuplets were between 13-17 months old and the twins were 3 the picture depicted on that episode is not the family we have seen in the past 2 seasons now. Season after Season of Jon and Kate Plus 8 have shown a marriage slowly being torn to shreds. In the past seasons you see Kate nearly every episode yelling or putting Jon down for not doing things just as she wants them or not doing them the "right" way saying at times he doesn't help her do anything and always belittling him.

These children also have never had a normal life since they were babies there have been cameras in their faces almost constantly. That to me is not healthy they have no private lives to live and grow as most children do. Since day one of the show there has been a lack of outside family support from Grandparents, aunts and uncles. So all these children know is the camera crew, producers, directors and their "parents" and a handful of people that help clean and babysit for the family. What kind of family is that?

As the show has progressed so has my anger of how Kate has used these children to get free tummy tucks and other plastic surgery, free vacations, clothing etc. She has totally changed since the show began I don't even recognize this person anymore.

From season 1-3 they would talk about going to church and even had episodes showing thechurch they attended and some of the sunday school teachers the children interacted with. But now there is not one mention of church or even that they believe in God anymore.

When they filmed the last episode of Season 4 you knew something was up Jon just sat there in the chair with Kate and had an angry look on his face and they talked about how they didn't know if they were going to do a 5th season and Jon even said he didn't want to do it. But Kate did and that is why we are seeing this unfold now. I loved watching the show until season 4 when you could just see things were not going right and I didn't want them to do another season I wanted them to end it.

On tonights Episode they announced that they filed for divorce today. I am not surprised. However, during the show Kate said this decision was not brought on by their choices to do the show or the kind of jobs they have chosen to do. Kate also said that they "have" to seperate and that they "have" to continue with the show. How does she get that? If they had just stopped the show take some time to be together and work on their marriage instead of her flying all around the U.S. to do speaking engagements and Jon staying with the kids and doing what he wants to do and they brought God back into their marriage and made Him the focus again they would still be together.

Jon's comment to the decision was that "I've let Kate run the roost too long and run me over, and when I finally put my foot down it came to this" I agree. You see on the episodes Kate doing just this and Jon not standing up for himself and letting her run her mouth at times. But it also takes 2 to tango and Jon has made some very bad decisions in the past few months so they both are at fault.

They both said on the show that they were constantly fighting in front of the children and because of that they "have" to separate. If these children were exposed to this I want to know if they could be charged with psychological abuse to their children. I know as a child of divorced parents and being exposed to my parents fighting all the time it affected me when I was a child and I believe parents should have enough self control not to fight in front of their children that to me shows a lack of maturity on both parts.

For months Jon and Kate have been investigated whether or not they are exploiting their children. I believe they are especially now that they have gone this far, and you can see it is affecting the children. The first episode of this season Alexis one of the Sextuplets came up to Jon and said "Daddy I don't want you to go away anymore." That showed me these children are suffering from their decisions but I am sure that they will cover that up on the show.

At the end of the show Jon and Kate said that they would share custody of the children that the house is the kids and that one parent would stay there for so many weeks or months at a time and then the other parent would stay. They said that they would have open "communication" with each other to take care of the kids. However, at the beginning of the show Jon and Kate both admitted that they have hardly spoken to each other in months and can't hardly have a conversation without yelling at each other. Yeah I can see this really working out.

What is the future of this family now? I see in the future that the lines of communication will crack and that sooner or later one of the parents (and I think Kate) will file for complete custody of the children and the other parent will be left in the dark and have to pay out a BUNCH of child support.

I hope that this show will soon be cancelled due to the complaints of the viewers media etc. and that finally these children will not have to live their lives unfolding for all the world to see. If you have never seen the movie "The Truman Show" with Jim Carey it is about a boy that from birth was on a Tv reality show but was never told and never knew his life was watched by the entire world and when he discovers that his entire life is fake he rebelles and escapes from the fake reality and into the real world I think this is what will happen with these children sooner or later if this show is not stopped. Please pray for this family and all who are involved.

God Bless

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