'Praise God and pass the diapers'

This article in the latest issue of Religion in the News looks at America's fascination with super-sized Christian families and how TV producers tend to avoid the religious underpinnings that inspire these reality TV parents to reproduce in big numbers:

Of these eight families who opened their homes to TLC cameras, six are conservative evangelical (four specifically identifying with the Quiverfull movement), one is Catholic, and one Mormon. Most instantly became celebrities in the conservative religious world, where they go on lucrative speaking tours, sell books, and appear on Christian talk shows. Yet this celebrity status is just one more aspect of the families' religious identity never mentioned on shows purporting to show us the reality of their daily lives.