<P> The Seewalds announced their first pregnancy on April 21, 2015, waiting until the second trimester . </P> <P> On July 16, 2015, TLC announced that the series was officially canceled . </P> <P> Arnold Hamilton of The Dallas Morning News described 19 Kids and Counting as "part Little House on the Prairie, part Yours, Mine & Ours--except the only blending in this real - life family occurs with restaurant like precision at mealtimes ." He described the Duggars as acting "against the trend", considering the 2002 US Census found that only 0.3 percent of women ages 15 to 44 have given birth to seven or more children and that this number has declined steadily since 1976 . </P> <P> In an op - ed for The New York Observer, Nina Burleigh described the Duggars as "Good TV . Good, sugarcoated rat poison, politically speaking", referring to the Duggars political activity such as their opposition to abortion and their lobbying efforts against legislation which would allow transgender people use of public restrooms matching their gender identity . </P>

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