It's American?

I am watching the tv show about the Duggar family.  During the show they were also being taped by a French television crew and they said that to have 17 (almost 18) children is American!  It concerns me that this is the image we portray.

Wife Swap

Wow!  The Wife Swap tonight was crazy.  It was a pageant crazy lady from Colorado and a doctor who plays roller derby from Washington.  During the show the baby only got second in the pageant and the dad was almost crying and the 6 year old son was....I hope people don't think that everyone from Colorado is like that.