You expressed my thoughts exactly. I don’t know anything really about the Duggars but they seem to follow a ‘pattern’ of child rearing and family life. It is not exclusively Christian or evangelical. Is it Bill Gotthard’s program? I pray that their family can and will recover from all this and that hopefully those young couples will find a more balanced Biblical way to live and relate, free in Christ.
They are strict followers of Gothard. In my opinion, Gothardism has a “blame” the victim mentality, ie, somehow Josh’s problems stem from his wife’s lack of attention—so he had no other outlet than to go outside the marriage. Gothardism dovetails w/Quiverfull—big families—wife almost always pregnant, nursing, etc. Anna Duggar has had 4 babies in under 7 years. When you do the math, you really just want to punch Josh Duggar in his pudgy smirking face....but that’s just me.