NO DUGGAR DIVORCE Josh Duggar’s wife Anna is ‘standing by him’ despite serious federal charges & even accompanied him to ‘turn himself in’

JOSH Duggar's wife Anna is "standing by" the disgraced reality star after he was arrested for serious federal charges.

A source exclusively told The Sun that the 32-year-old - who is pregnant with their seventh child - even accompanied Josh to the police station when he turned himself in.

Josh was taken into custody on federal charges on Thursday afternoon following a 2019 Homeland Security raid on his now-shuttered used car dealership.

An insider claimed Anna is continuing to support Josh throughout the scandal and has no plans to divorce him.

"She even accompanied Josh to Fayetteville on Thursday so he could turn himself in to authorities."

Something(s) about them is really triggering you. I only watched for the first two years, and since then I see snippets about them here and there. I find them yucky in all kinds of ways, but as noted, it's the stubborn qualities in both the parents that turn me off, such as Michelle's laughably outdated hairstyle. Her daughters took her for a makeover and her hair looked great for about as long as it took for her to get throiugh the rest of one episode; then back to 80s mall hair. And they are obviously taking undue pride in her fertility and his stud services, treating their children to a spectacle of 21st-century parents acting like 17th-century barn animals behind closed doors, which may have influenced their oldest son's focus unduly as he went through puberty and started his stealth perv career. As I said, these were matters of taste and style, for me; but may indeed have been making them figures of fun for the viewing public.

I can't ding them for supporting all their kids without public assistance through his business dealings, as long as the dealings are legitimate. I suppose they do save money by not funding higher education and by gardening for food, as well as the TV scamtacular. And I can't fault them for home-schooling, and bringing up most of their kids to be respectful, chaste, companionable, and modest without extremism. Jim Bob's mother was featured in some episodes working in the kitchen; it must take a lot of cooking to get through each day. I liked the views of the construction of their big house, the pantry like a small grocery store, the logistics of managing so many kids at one time, and the kids playing musical instruments as a praise band. Didn't think much more about it. Live and let live.

I do find the accusations against Josh Duggar quite appalling, and it is heartbreaking that his siblings will be crucified for it. Morgana, you believe the parents could have effected a lasting correction of his illicit behavior by going some other route than the Christian work camp or advice from the rest of their cultish network, and I also wish that could have happened; but I can see why a family of stubborn true believers like they are would have hesitated to trust a psychologist or psychiatrist outside of their narrow context. Hell, few people can trust the mental health establishment these days. I went for therapy when my marriage broke up and guess who groped me? That's right; the marriage counselor, a psychologist and former pastor.

Christians are not the only ones affected by illicit sex behaviors. It goes on in every walk of life, and may be one of the hardest areas of sin to conquer because of the privacy associated with it. Christians get extra-faulted for it; those who revel in it just declare the laws of God invalid and go their merry way. Until Christians start bringing their views of sex education and marriage preparation within the church up to date, Christians are going to be just as vulnerable as the rest of society. The stats on divorce and porn use by Christians are comparable to the unchurched, although the stats are skewed by a lower marriage rate among those who don't bother to get married and don't care about it one way or the other.

As it turned out, according to Wikipedia, the state trooper who was a family friend gave Josh a stern lecture when Jim Bob finally reported Josh for his early messing around with his sisters—that trooper, a "family friend" and a trusted authority figure to Jim Bob, eventually turned out to have child porn interests himself and is now serving 54 years in jail. This whole thing is like a Southern gothic novel by Truman Capote.

I feel very sad for their entire cast of characters. The parents' motivations for being on TV may have started out hoping to put a good face on fundamentalist Christians, and the best that can be said about their foreknowledge of Josh's behavior was that TLC probably didn't know due to the records being sealed under court order, the parents were in denial, and Josh was lying and covering up his continued obsession while he tarnished the Family Research Council, an otherwise reputable foundation, as well as betraying his family. It came to light when the left started doxxing all anti-LBGT activism in the 2010s, in the run up to legalizing gay marriage in 2015. Josh had hypocritically been campaigning against it for FRC, and the left used a Freedom of Information Act to unseal his juvenile molestation record.

After a couple of years of money and notoriety rolling in, including fan support from other naïve Christians, the parents should have pulled the plug on the reality show, but obviously they became addicted to it and now it's splashing back in their faces like the manure pile in a rainstorm. it's hard for me to imagine exposing my children to this sort of carnival, like the pageant moms (Mama June and many others) or JonBenet Ramsey's family, given the dangers. An advanced degree of immature, stubborn naïveté morphed into financial dependence.

I remember a scene, coincidentally also from 2015, in a biopic about Dolly Parton's childhood in poverty in Appalachia, one of 14 children, in which her mother's dad (played by Gerald McRaney), who was also a pastor, scolded his son-in-law (Dolly's father) for not restraining himself more, to give Dolly's mom a break from being constantly pregnant. There was no reality TV show for them to exploit for support, and no relief from grinding poverty back then.

So I do agree that the senior Duggars are now morally compromised to a degree that is dangerous to themselves and others. But I can't let it bother me enough to put them in the public stocks (the internet) and throw things at them. There's still something to be said for chastity, modesty, repentance and forgiveness—just not confusing forgiveness with an absence of accountability. This time, if the evidence is true, Josh will finally have to pay a steep price for all of it. And his dumbass parents will suffer accordingly. Can't feel too sorry about that.

I pity his brothers and sisters, who had no control over the way they were raised. Your analysis of the temptation for Anna to continue milking that cow is horrifying and probably quite accurate. I hope they all can knock off the media addiction and find a life out of the spotlight going forward. Being a true follower of Christ is never going to be a charmed, easy life; and no one gets a free pass until the day they die—anyone can fall off the "born again" horse if they take their salvation for granted. Pride goeth before a fall. They will get another chance to learn that now.

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