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The Duggars and Bill Gothard’s Sex Regulations
It’s Valentine’s Day, the Duggars have offered some tips for keeping the sexy going. Most of the tips are fairly conventional—things like date night and keeping romance alive—but the first two tips are...
View ArticleYou Don’t Write Your Kids’ Lives (They Do)
Good gracious, I just came upon a Babble article titled Jessa Duggar Will Have a Chaste Courtship—And My Kids Will, Too. With all due respect, author Kacy Faulconer has no idea whether or not her...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Duggar Defenders
More than two years ago I wrote a blog post titled My Concerns about the Duggars. To this day it continues getting hundreds of hits daily, along with the random comment. Probably half of the comments...
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Growing Up Jeub
I have written several blog posts about the Duggars and their beliefs, and each time have had commenters defend the Duggars and tell me that their family must be happy and functional because they look...
View ArticleThe Courtship Mask
I recently posted excerpts from an article written by Shoshanna Pearl, which began like this:When I got married, I expected my husband to be that alpha male that my dad was; but he was not. We would be...
View ArticleWhat You Need to Know about the Josh Duggar Police Report
New readers may be interested in my previous writings on the Duggars, including Carefully Scripted Lives: My Concerns about the Duggars, written in February 2012 and An Open Letter to Duggar Defenders,...
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What Did Josh Duggar’s Counseling Look Like?
This week the news broke that Josh Duggar sexually molested at least five girls in two families while he was a teen. I can’t say for sure what Josh Duggar’s counseling looked like, though it appears it...
View ArticleAnna Duggar and the Silencing Power of Forgiveness
I have been coming upon more and more truly excellent commentary in the aftermath of the revelation that Josh Duggar sexually molested five girls in two families as a teenager—and that his parents,...
View ArticleWhy Josh Duggar’s “Teenage Mistakes” Matter
Last week it was revealed that Josh Duggar sexually assaulted five girls in two families, some as young as five, when he was a teenager. This took place over the course of a year. Josh’s father, Jim...
View ArticleJim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s Interview with Megyn Kelly: Minimize, Deny,...
This evening I listened to Megyn Kelly’s interview with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar. I’ve written a number of posts about the Duggar situation over the past two weeks, including What You Need to Know...
View ArticleJosh was “Just Curious about Girls” and the Rank Hypocrisy of the Duggar...
This past Friday, Jill and Jessa repeated their parents’ minimization of their brother’s actions, complete with their insistence that Josh was “just curious about girls.” And what really hit me,...
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Not Every Courtship Looks Like the Duggars’
So, courtships. In a post I wrote recently on the Duggars, I mentioned that I “went through a controlling and manipulative courtship process and then lived in fear that my mother would find out I was...
View ArticleJosh Duggar Sent to Long-Term Treatment Center
Earlier today, the Duggars released a statement.Duggar Family StatementWe are so thankful for the outpouring of love, care and prayers for our family during this most difficult situation with Josh. As...
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A Case for Calling the Duggars ATI Rather Than Quiverfull
I wrote recently about some of the many definitional issues surrounding the term “quiverfull.” If you have not already read that post, you can do so here. But in this post I want to go farther and...
View ArticlePlease Don’t Deny Our Agency
I wrote the first draft of this post last summer. I wasn’t satisfied with it as it was, so I set it aside and promptly forgot about it. A conversation with one of my sisters reminded me of the post, so...
View ArticleWhy Public Speculation about the Duggar Children’s Sexuality Should Be Off...
When Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar signed on with TLC, they put their family before the public as a form of entertainment, and that is how many Americans seem to view the Duggars—as entertainment. I’m...
View ArticleThe Duggars, the Dionnes, and Child Exploitation
Child labor laws frequently come up in discussions of the Duggars. There are laws about how child actors are paid---laws intended to prevent their parents from exploiting them---but these laws do not...
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