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To: Nextrush
"...The sexual misconduct activities of the conservative religious community teenagers are real enough..."

I believe that's more accurate. No community is immune or worse than any other when it comes to all manner of bad behavior by teenagers. Doesn't matter if religious or secular, conservative or liberal, race, nationality, etc.

About the only distinction you could make is that boys are more prone to offend than girls, but by how much debateable.

It's a huge family with a bad-actor caught 10 years ago and known of by their church elders and the state police. And folks are all flabergasted that a family doesn't want to air their dirty laundry in public and on national TV, as if the fondling wasn't bad enough. How weird, right? As if "Normal" families would want to delve into the depths of humiliation for our enjoyment and satisfaction.

I would wager a surprising percentage of families, somewhere in their extended family, also have some abhorrently dirty laundry and/or black-sheep relative they would rather not discuss.

Heck I don't even watch the show so maybe I'm not emotionally invested one way or the other. I just truly dislike how we (as a society) seem to derive entertainment, pleasure and satisfaction from the misfortune and scandals of others.

28 posted on 05/22/2015 6:02:02 AM PDT by jaydee770
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To: jaydee770
And folks are all flabergasted that a family doesn't want to air their dirty laundry in public and on national TV

If you don't want people to find out that you are raising a predator, there are many things you probably shouldn't do.

Among them:

(1) Don't make a nationally televised reality show about your family.

(2) Don't run for Congress.

(3) Don't encourage the predator to become a lobbyist for a high profile conservative group.

The Duggar household seems like a bad ideas factory.

45 posted on 05/22/2015 7:05:44 AM PDT by wideawake
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