Duggar Sisters Are Prepped to Get Pregnant and Raise Kids AS Kids

It seems as though the Duggar sisters are raised (by their other sisters, actually) with one objective in mind: to get married, get pregnant, and have families of their own. Okay, okay, in most societal circles, there's an absurd amount of pressure for young women to do this. But with the Duggars, the family who thinks having 19 children is totally normal, it's really brandished into the girls' minds. Without higher education or even a real job as an option (and no, "concert pianist" doesn't count), the girls are taught to be nothing but breeders, following in the footsteps of matriarch Michelle Duggar. And it starts really early.

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For the married daughters, there's definite proof that they're pushed to get pregnant, considering everyone (save for Jinger) basically got pregnant about five minutes after the wedding day. "I'm so thankful for you, mama. And even more recently, just helping with all the wedding planning and helping me just not get stressed out about all that," Joy-Anna once said in a Mother's Day video card to Michelle. "I can't wait to be a mother myself," she adds, shooting a fierce Duggar love stare at then-fiancé Austin Forsyth.

The "can't wait" part of that declaration definitely can't be emphasized enough — at the time Joy was 19 years old and about three months shy of announcing her own pregnancy. But if you think that's a mad dash toward motherhood, it's time to take a look back at the Duggar family photo album (or their social media feeds). Rest assured, getting married isn't the first time they thought of having babies…or becoming a mother isn't when they start raising babies. Because it 100% seems like all of those daughters, Joy-Anna included, were pretty much taught to child-rear back when they were still children. Click through below to see how Duggar daughters are pushed into motherhood from the get-go.

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Jana was always born to be the "baby-whisperer."

"This #tbt shows how Jana always wanted to help Mom out," reads the caption on the Duggar family's official Facebook. You don't know how many times we read that as "mom-out" like Jana was going to go hard on being maternal. And since this picture clocks in at 1996, that means Jana was only six years old and feeding her newborn brother (very probably Josiah).

And she continued to grow into the "Mom" role as more and more little Duggars popped up.

It seems like every Duggar fan jokes about how Jana is a 28-year-old unmarried old maid (which like, in any other world wouldn't even be a thing), and yet she's been a mom longer than Jessa, Jill, and Joy-Anna…and arguably more successfully than Michelle. Of course, this leads to Jana now taking care of her nieces and nephews as well as her siblings. Can't a girl catch a break?

Joy-Anna was also taking care of her siblings as early as six years old.

While not an original official buddy leader — she had to sort of step out once Jill and Jessa left the compound — Joy was helping babies while still a baby too! The OG Duggar special, 14 Kids and Pregnant Again, shows Joy carrying and dressing one of her baby brothers. And in case you think this is exclusively a Joy-Anna and Jana curse, it's worth noting that Jill was changing Joy's diapers when she was also just six herself. That seems to be the golden age for when Duggar girls can start taking care of babies.

Which, umm, we were still eating paste at that age.

Everyone is pushed to get pregnant as soon as possible. Everyone.

Okay, so maybe when you were little you put a pillow under your shirt just to see what it would be like. But while motherhood is traditionally glamorized for little girls' playtime (we'll get there), is it really like…a distinct joy to be pregnant? Isn't it all morning sickness and insane hormones and swollen feet and gaining 40 pounds? Look, we're aware that you have to go through all that stuff to get to the baby at the end of the tunnel, which is a true gift, right? But we just don't see the rush.

There's a lot of evidence that Jordyn is slowly becoming Buddy Leader of Jessa's kids.

Admittedly, the two have a close relationship: Jordyn-Grace was Jessa's buddy and when Jessa was first pregnant with little Spurgeon, Jordyn was the first to know the sex of the baby. Cute, right? But there's more than a few pictures of the nine-year-old with Jessa's little ones, even carrying the infants like little Joy back in the day. How much would you want to bet that Jessa's encouraging Jordyn to "help"? You know, whenever Jana's too busy.

Speaking of which, it doesn't seem circumstantial that Michelle and Josie are playing with dolls.

Again, you may roll your eyes at us and say this is normal stuff. Owning a baby doll or even a few baby dolls doesn't necessarily mean you're forcing your kid to procreate ASAP. But it's still a form of feminine conditioning, and it's harder to explain away this: (The big reveal is worth it, we promise).

Josie Duggar's nursery. Dude.

Josie is literally the littlest Duggar and hopefully a solid decade and change away from marriage (big emphasis on "hopefully") there. Yet she's already got it in her mind that there is no greater joy than taking care of a passel of children, in this case, children that possibly aren't even hers.

Somebody needs to have a long heart-to-heart with Jana.

Duggar Girls Are Prepped to Procreate From Day One, and We Have the Receipts

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Jana was always born to be the "baby-whisperer."

And she continued to grow into the "Mom" role as more and more little Duggars popped up.

Joy-Anna was also taking care of her siblings as early as six years old.

And it's worth noting that the little Duggar girls are pictured holding babies way more than the boys.

Everyone is pushed to get pregnant as soon as possible. Everyone.

There's a lot of evidence that Jordyn is slowly becoming Buddy Leader of Jessa's kids.

It does not seem circumstantial that leisure for Duggar girls seems to be domestic activities, like cooking.

The same goes for Michelle teaching the girls how to sew…emphasis on "the girls."

Speaking of which, it doesn't seem circumstantial that Michelle and Josie are playing with dolls.

Josie Duggar's nursery. Dude.

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