“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.”
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Wow, I’ve just seen a commonsense and understanding post in this thread. Thank you.
After having watched a number of episodes of “19 Kids and Counting”, watching the Meghan Kelly interview and going through all the posts in this thread, I’m somewhat at a loss for words. I think what I’m seeing are posters who are absolutely REEKING on jealousy and of a complete lack of compassion and understanding. That’s IMHO, of course.
If you eliminate the show aspect entirely...and media hype and simply focus on the happening years ago, which seems to be what the focus is about. Then I don't see that I would have handled it differently then they did...though I might have sought outside help a bit earlier then they did, still I can't see they were negligent in how they handled this situation with their son. Every thing else about this is really simply part of their reality show....and the media's hype.
Absolutely agree with you. People HATE this family and are more than willing to watch them go down in flames. All of them.
Exactly. But these can’t be Christians commenting with all this hatred on the Duggar threads. So that makes it a little easier to stomach their vile they are spewing. Until one knows the grace of God through a personal relationship with Him, it’s futile to try to even explain it.
That's my opinion too!
FWIW, this adolescent behavior of "touching" is more prevalent than people realize and I suspect there are many males here who have used certain circumstances to "cop a feel" when they were kids.
There was a caller into Rush today who detailed what he went thru when he found out his 12 year old son had "copped a feel" and he felt he was doing the right thing in contacting an agency that dealt with this sort of behavior.
He called this agency on an unregistered cell phone fearing repercussions and the agency told him he had nothing to fear that he would remain anonymous.
Within hours police cars arrived at his house and his son was taken by CPS.......
It took him a year, two attorneys, $10,000 and a final statement from his child's psychologist that the child wasn't a pervert to get his kid cleared.
As a side note, I wonder how many guys here have fantasized about or even tried to get a glimpse into their high school girls' locker room?.........LOL!