Some ‘Jon & Kate’ fans think show should end

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Also last month, Kate Gosselin's brother and sister-in-law went public with the charge that the couple was exploiting their children for financial gain. (Jon and Kate Gosselin are reportedly paid tens of thousands of dollars per episode.)

And in another incident that Kate Gosselin could surely have done without, paparazzi snapped shots of her apparently spanking one of her daughters. "Caught Hitting Her Daughter," read the cover headline on In Touch Weekly. The mother responded that she would discipline her children as she saw fit.

Yet the couple has remained a source of fascination, affection and sometimes inspiration for many fans.

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"I really looked up to them," said Speakman, the California fan. "They seemed to have a very faith-based marriage. That's something I admire. I think they're good people, but I think they've gone a little off track. It's really disheartening."

Speakman's husband, Rich, is a bit more skeptical. "He thinks they're doing this breakup for publicity and ratings," said Speakman. "And he thinks they'll get back together again to make the ratings go up."

But other viewers are more emotionally involved. For one, commenting on the show's own blog, the turmoil brought back painful childhood memories.

"I was as young as 6 when my parents divorced and it would've been so much worse if the aftermath of it all was at millions of people's hands," the fan wrote. "STOP doing the show it was great but now it's just another depressing statistic."

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