I Read ‘Growing Up Duggar’: Chapter 2 — Your Relationship with Your Parents

This is the chapter where the Duggar daughters take turns taking a giant shit on their grandpa. You see, he didn’t have a spiritual focus, nor did he have the “right attitudes and responses.” He struggled financially, and once the family ha the utilities shut off. How ungodly it is to be poor! What a moral failing Seriously, if they’re trying to say he was not a nice man, they’re doing a bad job.

And of course, Grandma Duggar was an angel. It was because of her that Jim Bob grew into his glory.

On the other hand, Michelle’s dad grew up in an orphanage and chose not to “wallow in depression.” He chose to “live cheerfully” and become a hard worker. As you can see, the Duggars think depression is a moral failing.

The girls also make it clear that they are not trying to date. They want to have a courtship, and they know that the relationship a girl has with her dad will influence the way she sees men as she grows older. The Duggar girls, all-knowing as they are, tell us that girls who do not have dads who protect them make bad choices that lead to “painful memories.”

In one instance, they write about a girl who wrote to them about wanting her dad to check out her dates. For some reason, he refused. So, she would go on a date with the…