DUGGARS: TRAPPED IN A WORLD THEY NEVER MADE?!

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"19 Kids and Counting" out of control?

How do the Duggars do it? With 19 kids and counting, the TV fam of the same name make it work by having all their children pitch in to help with babysitting, housework, and other family duties. It’s a system that has received criticism from outsiders, but now, a man who grew up in a similar family is speaking out about the children’s plight, insisting that life inside a giant family can be a struggle when the families aren’t rolling.

“It is not [kids’] responsibility to have to raise their brothers and sisters,” Paul Lamar Hunter, who is the 19th child of a 21-sibling family, told RadarOnline.com

“It is Jim Bob and Michelle’ job to be the parents.”

On recent eps, the oldest Duggar daughter, Jana, 24, has seemed overwhelmed with family tasks — a situation that is very familiar to Hunter.

“Jim Bob and Michelle need to stay at home with their children and let Jana have her life,” says Hunter, who grew up in Rancine, Wisconsin.

According to Hunter, his own mother was rarely home because of her devotion to a homeless shelter, leaving her children to run the household.

“Those children are not Jana’s responsibility. She is an adult who wants to have fun with her friends and go on dates,” he says.