The Strangeness of the Duggar Family and the Gothard Teachings

The Duggar series was a hit because the Duggar's were popular. And then the story is lurid and to people who are not in deeply ensconced in evangelical Christianity in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, strange. The strangeness of the Duggar family, the 19 children, hardly typical, helped draw an audience. But you're going to get an audience that is sort of like rubbernecking at a crash site on an interstate.

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