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I Read ‘Growing Up Duggar’: Chapter 1 — Your Relationship With Yourself
This week, I read Growing Up Duggar by Jana, Jill, Jessa, and Jinger Duggar — “us girls,” if you will.
The first thing you need to know about “us girls” is that they all write with the same voice and that this voice seems to belong to a person who uses words like “youngsters” and “chums.”
Next, they really take up for their parents right off the bat. Their parents are totally able to spend more time individually with each of their 19 kids than most parents with only one or two kids.
Immediately, we are faced with four people “us girls” have talked to: a young girl in an orphanage, a single mother, a mother struggling with her teenage daughter’s interest in boys, and a girl in a juvenile detention center who doesn’t think God forgives her. That’s who this book is for: people the Duggar women made up.
They also tell us right away about the two types of women in this world: women who to go to Christian school and church three times a week and girls with piercings and tattoos hoping to be “fixed.”
Finally, the Duggar ladies want us to know that they wrote this book because they are super humble. Off we go.
