JULY 1 2016 Panel at ICSA Annual Conference Cable television's Learning Channel publicizes the wholesome facade of family through the Duggar Family's "19 Kids and Counting" show, but few viewers understand the dark underbelly of their formulaic, high demand ideology. Considering this reality show family as a prototype and their deep roots in the Independent Baptist movement, this presentation will delve into the variety of extreme measures used to enforce their panacea of a mythical family ideal. With a special focus on corporal punishment and the incarceration of children in "troubled teen industry" homes, two Second Generation Adult survivors of this system will recount their experiences within this religious movement. This presentation specifically endeavors to highlight the unique recovery needs of those who have endured the profound trauma of the Baptist residential teen home experience. Janet Heimlich will explore the challenges of addressing and preventing this variety of Religious Child Maltreatment.

1. From
Demanding Duggar Cradle
to
Troubled Teen Home
Overcoming the
Baptist Myth of Family

2. Condensed Rapid Review
PowerPoint & References
.
UnderMuchGrace.com
.
RedeemDinah.blogspot.com
Interviews with the Panelists
Discussion with Jan Heimlich
 How do we overcome the myths?

3. Duggar Family
- Jim Bob & Michelle
- Used car and real estate salesman
- Arkansas House of Representatives (1999 - 2002)
- Unsuccessful campaign for US Senate (2002)
- The Learning Channel Cable TV
2004
2008-2015

4. Duggar Family

5. 2015 Scandals
- Josh Duggar (eldest child)
- Age 27
- Family Research Council
- Molested 4 sisters & a babysitter (2002 - 2003)
- Delayed DHS investigation of events (2006)
- Online extramarital affair service, prostitute,
internet porn

6. Damage Control
- Evasive
- Duggar Lawsuit: Seal records (2007)
- Statements to police
- Counseling
- Secular psychology: spiritual threat
- “Training Center”
- Minimization of events on Fox News
Focus: Religious Implications

7. Duggars' Motivations?
- Raising the Ideal Family:
New Religious Rite
- Politics (defend homeschooling & marriage)
- System predicated on patriarchy:
Women created to serve men
Is the Purity Culture actually a
Culture of Abuse?

8. Strategies: Protect Families
- Independent Fundamental Baptists
- Alternatives to public education
- Troubled Teen Homes
- Quiverfull Movement
- Analogy: Children likened to arrows (quiver)
- Bill Gothard
(The Duggars are celebrities
in Gothard’s homeschooling community.)

9. Quiverfull Movement
If each Christian family had six children,
and the humanists, feminists, and others kept
on having an average of one…
…then in twenty years there would be
sixty of us for every forty of them.
.
In forty years,
90 percent of America would be Christian!
Mary Pride’s
The Way Home
(1985)
Evangelism
Through
Reproduction
pg. 80
SOCIAL ENGINEERING
Love of babies + Right Wing Politics =

10. - Parachurch Organization (1961)
- IFB, Shepherding, Quiverfull
- Standards for women (Apocrypha)
Cradle to Grave
Lifestyle Programs
- Simple steps to fix complex problems
- Homeschooling Curriculum
- Training centers (troubled teen home)
Bill Gothard
Institute in Basic Life Principles

11. Spiritual Covering / Confinement
You face
God’s direct retribution
if you don’t
remain confined

12. Gothard’s Hammer Analogy
Context:
Parents
&
children
People are
diamonds
in the rough
Reframe
interpersonal
conflict
to foster
personal
growth

13. Hierarchy & Submission

14. Submission & Suffering
Not an analogy:
IMPERATIVE

15. Sexual Abuse
Suggests that the
physical body is
not important
Asks what sexual
behavior solicited
the abuse
Testimonies that
Gothard required women
who were molested
as children to repent

17. IFB & Gothard Doctrines
- Suffering for family is redemptive
- Victims share blame in sex abuse
- “Strange woman” doctrine (KJV term “prostitute”)
- Children complicit in their own molestation
- “Child Training”(KJV term)
- Corporal punishment
- Blanket Training

18. IFB’s Troubled Teen Industry

19. IFB Homes
Girls Homes as Prototypes
Homes where our panelists were incarcerated
- Hephzibah House “my delight is in her”
- Ron Williams
- Wynona Lake, IN (1971 - present)
- New Bethany Home for Girls
- Mack Ford
- Arcadia, LA (1972 - 2001)
- Grand Jury hearing Dec 2014 (sex abuse)

20. “Godly Discipline”
“full lock down prison” “suburban gulag”
 Complete Isolation from Outside World
 Heavy Physical Labor
 Aggressive Physical Beatings
 Controlled Food & Water
 Regulated Bodily Functions
 Elimination
 Menstruation
 Rape