Yeah, it’s a total nightmare. In terms of criticizing the rest of the family, first, I don’t really think they’ve been vilified. More just people highlighting how fucked up their belief system is when it comes to abuse, which i feel is totally warranted and legit. Whether they thought they were doing the best thing is…

Oh, of course that’s not what she likely meant or how she feels. She was brought up in the same bullshit cult as the Duggars, so she is operating within the perspective of that warped worldview. It still leaves me gobsmacked, though. The entire family has treated the molestation like it was no big deal and I’m sure it…

Totally agree. It’s gross because it’s this fictional world where Richie Cunningham goes slightly off the rails but Howard and Marion are there to set him straight.

I was being hyperbolic but the way they phrased it — “he was just being a teenage boy, they have interest in these things” — did reek of the boys will be boys/it’s all good mentality we hear so often about teenagers who do terrible things.

I don’t think they think it’s good fun to molest girls. From what I understand they think it’s ‘just the way things are’ because women are temptresses or something. It’s beyond sick. They don’t even let boys change diapers because, you know, temptation. If that doesn’t say something about their fucked up thinking I…

You’re right, but I have to wonder how much agency she had in “choosing” to marry him. Her dad doesn’t sound to be much better than any of the D-bags, and even if she said she chose, she might have been facing shunning, parental disapproval, etc., for not agreeing. And I guarantee that no one said that he “molested”…

Her daughter is safe and happy now. She is very well supported and takes good care of herself, as well. She’s had a hard go but she made it out, and she’s only involved in order to try to support her mom. It’s weird because we only know any of them due to my dad working briefly with Mr. Dickhead, but the daughter and…

Then when he is caught again it will be wash rinse and repeat. I am sure they will make a good thing of his repentence until he is caught again. Wifie will never leave because she has been raised to believe she can’t, even to protect her children.

In my friend’s case her “faith” is really compartmentalized. Publicly, she is a progressive, no-nonsense business person who stands up for herself and others. In her family though, she still goes tiptoes around her bigot husband in order to maintain her relationship with her daughter, who is gay. This woman kicked her…

Who knows? I agree, it’s very sad. I’m happy for my sister that her husband really is a wonderful person and so caring and gentle, but the way they view and prioritize the things in their life is so weird (to me). Like, my sister tried numerous times to get me to break up with my now-husband before we got married.…

She does- but who knows what the Duggars or the Keller’s are even saying to her about her brother and any outside influences.

THANK YOU! I can’t believe that the family is more scandalized by the cheating than by his apparent drive to sexually molest little girls! At least he was cheating with consenting women over the age of 18 (or at least, I hope he was).

I think she really did know before they married. She was incredibly naive and raised in a cult, and her dad works with prisoners. Her dad was the one to select her husband; he’s heard worse stories; and hey, Josh had repented! NBD...I guess.

It’s the power of repentance and redemption through the blood of Jesus Christ!

I agree, it’s not like she had a bunch of boyfriends to choose from from which her father could pick one to court her, it was marry the Duggar boy or continue to be a stay-at-home-daughter (wasting eggs every month) until God sent the proper man to Mr. Kellar.

Not when you realize she sees Josh’s past as barely a thing. She didn’t use the word “mistake” last night but some similar phrase to indicate what Joshua* told her and her parents was not a huge deal. Anna and the Kellars may have been told that Josh sexually molested his younger sisters... or that when Josh was…

She always has the option of writing a kickass tell-all book. I would love to see her throw the lot of them under the bus, get a haircut and move to the big city with her kids. That I’d watch.

I'd be terrified to raise children with a known child molester. Hopefully, once the creeper cones back, they'll be having regular visits from CPS.

For real though. I’m grateful I ended up with my specific shitty life instead of her shitty life.

“Let’s all take a moment to give thanks for the greatest holiday gift of all: That you’re not in this situation.”