Yesterday I talked about the fact that it will be interesting to see the kids in Kate & John + 8 grow up, kind of like a science experiment, but how will people look back on this show twenty years from now.
In 1934 a set of identical quintuplet girls were born: The Dionne Quintuplets. These poor girls were taken from their parents and put on display for the amusement of the public.
A less famous set of multiples are the The Fultz Quads, four identical girls born in 1946, who I can barely find anything about on the web. They too were watched by the world when they were used in advertising campaigns, but they were also given shots of Vitamin C by a doctor who decided to experiment on them.
Will those of us who watched the show end up feeling guilty about taking part in the exploitation of these kids twenty years from now, or will it be more like looking back at the Osmond family... nothing but warm fuzzies?
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