Posted on 06/03/2015 8:34:42 PM PDT by Mozilla
Fox News’ Megyn Kelly finally aired her big, much-anticipated interview with Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, in which they opened up about their son Josh Duggar‘s public confession that he molested several young girls, including his own sisters, when he was a teenager.
The first time it happened, they explained, was when their son came to them, crying and saying he had touched his young sisters when they were asleep. Michelle Duggar said, “We had one ray of hope in that Josh had a tender conscience.”
There were more instances afterwards, Jim Bob Duggar said, in which their son had inappropriately touched his sisters over their clothes and “a couple of instances where he touched them under their clothes, but it was like a few seconds.” And, as he noted, his son’s victims didn’t seem to understand what had happened to them until it was subsequently explained to them.
They got very emotional as they spoke to Duggar about how they felt they failed as parents and how they came to the decision to send their son Josh to get therapy. Later on, Kelly brought up 19 Kids and Counting––which has been pulled but not cancelled by TLC––and asked, “What would make you launch a reality TV show about your family, given this past?” Jim Bob Duggar said they weren’t worried because the records were sealed and they had dealt with all this years ago.
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No but he was an adult....67. I think one should know right from wrong.
I think most 14 & 15 year olds know that what Josh did is wrong. Especially a family like the Duggars who are so strict about even hugging each other.
I don’t know if Arkansas law would have tried him as an adult or not.
Because the Duggars chose to make money by putting their very young children on TV. They make money injecting themselves into moral and political issues, doing robo-calls making endorsements and speeches. Plus the child-molester son was the public point man for the AFA against gay marriage.
When you make your living off the public, you don't get to say "no" just because you don't want the bad stuff to come out.
I'm a conservative Christian. Millions are. But most of us don't make our money in the media. Its hypocritical of them (or you) to say that the media attention isn't wanted when they've made cash off of everything including their miscarried baby.
Mia Farrow’s brother is in prison for molestation of two 10-year-old boys. Bet you didn’t hear about that.
Since you seem to know everything about Mia Farrow and her family, you must be her biggest fan since you seem to be claiming the story wasn't in the media.
Which is it? It was in the media, where you saw it? Or you are her biggest fan and know things the rest of us don't?
I think it was a ratings game for Ms Kelly.
They will be dragging the sisters out tomorrow to say that the really big deal is the state releasing the records.
The family must be desperate to get their show back on the air.
And for the Duggars...
I agree...something ain’t right.
Well I haven’t been following this ordeal...so I listened to the videos linked.
Based on what the parents stated, and how they handled this seemed appropriate to me. ...understanding that the kid was 14 at the time etc. I likely would have done the same...kept it in house as a parent and for the sake of my kids...until I could see there was a more serious issue needing to get addressed. Which is what they did.
“The family must be desperate to get their show back on the air.”
After the clips I’ve seen of this interview, I would be shocked if TLC even considered putting the show back on the air. For one thing, what companies would spend a dime advertising on the show, ever again?
I think more of this is being made media fodder than needs be...and likely also there program, which I have not seen nor interested in doing so.
Unfortunately once anyone go’s public with anything the wolves are always there to ravage whatever sense of dignity anyone might have. Holly wood style all the more.
If this family has done wrong it’s putting their family out there to begin with....which in today’s world will bring nothing but trouble for doing so.
With all due respect, I would hope that you (or any parent) would see the situation as “a serious issue needing to get help” the FIRST time your son came to you and admitted molesting his sisters, not the THIRD time.
“What would make you launch a reality TV show about your family, given this past?” Jim Bob Duggar said they weren’t worried because the records were sealed and they had dealt with all this years ago.
In the old testement Moses thought his sins were hidden when he killed the Egyptian....as Christians the Duggars should have known that biblical history and been more forthcoming especially since they decided to become the image of Christianity on tv.
Duggars and their cult do notq represent Christians. What kind of people do you hang out with? Gothard ATI people? The ATI crowd or the Christian version of Stepford families. Nothing authentic about that lifestyle. Nothing Christian about the Bill Gothard cultists.
No...I would hope as a parent I would have enough common sense and relationship with my son to have an conversation and correct it, most parents are well aware enough to handle this privately. However with it being repeated thereafter I would have certainly then sought outside help as this family seems to have done.
I heard most of it. It was weird and awkward to say the least.
I’ve not seen their program...so what exactly is the cult they’re involved with?
Go here to learn everything you never wanted to know about the history of Bill Gothard, The Institute of Basic Youth Conflicts and ATI, the Advanced Training Institute: Recoveringgrace.org
if you really want to understand this will take some time to research.
With all the clinton’s wrong doings, the Middle East on fire, China working on starting WW3 by claiming territory that isn’t theirs, along with all the other things going on in the world, and Fox news does an hour special on them? I ran out of eye and brain bleach a couple days ago, so I had to change the channel before i had that idiocy permanently embedded.
Given the thread topic, I hope you didn't use that word in the Biblical sense.../sarc>
The Duggars clearly live a highly repressed lifestyle. Their son came into his adolescence with hormones going crazy, sexual drive taking off and with no support or guidance to manage a very real force of nature. The kid acted out badly and the parents in their own repressed mindset were not prepared to properly address this adolescent problem. Looks like they wanted to apply a repressive interpretation of their faith to deal with it and only took the next step when they recognized they couldn’t pray the problem away.
I haven’t ever watched their show but can’t flip through the channels without seeing them. This interview reminded me of why. I find them highly repressed, not just sexually, but socially. They are not bad people and I would hope Josh has not repeated his very bad actions. He has a wife now and hopefully a natural sex life with her. By the way, the release of his records was highly illegal.
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