News about Jim Bob Duggar

The mother of three discovered her large family had a 'buddy' system that had her assigning a younger sibling to look after, but she was not given the responsibility until six years old. 'No one fell through the cracks,' the 19 Kids And Counting star explained. "There was always someone ensuring that this one had lunch, and this one's diaper was changed." Another rule that she spoke about was a'six-inch rule,' which meant they had to have six inches of space between them and a person of the opposite sex at all times until they were married.

Jill Duggar has delves into another area of her tumultuous friendship with her estranged father Jim Bob Duggar.

On the November issue of the Ask Dr. Julie Hanks podcast, the mother-of-three, 32, opened up. She addressed her fertility issues - which she'd first discussed in her book, Counting the Cost - and how growing up in the Christian organisation known as the Institute of Basic Life Principles changed her views on having children.

Derick Dillard isn’t afraid to do what it takes to protect his wife Jill Duggar! It's no surprise that Derick has had a slew of problems with his wife's dad, Jim Bob Duggar, earlier this year. In her newly released memoir Counting the Cost, the 32-year-old recalled several issues with their relationship, including allegations the patriarch once tried to send her husband to rehab all because he drank one single beer!

In her latest book Counting the Cost, Jill Duggar rips her father Jim Bob Duggar, saying that he treated her convicted sex offender sibling Josh better than he did. Jill, 32, told her father, 58, "You treat me worse than you treat your pedophile brother."

Amy, 36, hasn't held back when it comes to speaking out about her celebrity relatives and was recently included in the Amazon docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets alongside her cousin Jill Duggar. Amy now says the IBLP is 'breeding predators,' like Josh Duggar, and has chastised the non-denominational Christian group for its 'unhealthy' rules and'distorted' views in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com. 'They won't have tampons allowed in the house, but predators will be allowed in the house,' she said, referring to the organization's stringent lifestyle policies.

After a video of Jill's mother teaching her viewers an 'unsafe' parenting hack resurfaced, she has been chastised by fans. Since speaking out against her parents Michelle, 56, and Jim Bob Duggar, 58, and the IBLP's recommendations, she was now under fire, but Jill has since been caught sharing a trick she uses 'all the time' resurfaced. Jill was chastised for the'real piss off' and claimed that the mother had more than enough funds to buy a "proper stroller," adding that the trick that resulted in her sitting on a car seat on an umbrella stroller was not'safe enough.'

Jinger, 29, and her partner Jeremy Vuolo, 35, chronicled a recent trip back to Arkansas to visit her relatives, which involved a get-together for all of the women in the family's family at a local restaurant, which was posted on her YouTube account. Kendra is seen walking toward the table where the ladies were seated in the video, and viewers were quick to notice that she was holding an infant in her arms. It comes one year after rumors that Joseph, 28, and Kendra, 24, had quietly added to their brood.

When a bombshell story on the internet revealed that Josh, now 35, had admitted inappropriately touching four of his siblings years earlier, and that his own parents, Jim Bob, now 56, was aware of it and failed to disclose it, including Amy, who has now 36. Amy, the niece of Duggar family patriarch Jim Bob and was a key player in their many lucrative reality shows when she was growing up, spoke to Vanity Fair about Josh's vehement after his behavior was revealed. According to the former reality star, she felt out like 'the majority of the world' did,' and was furious that no one in the family reached out to her directly. She revealed that she had initially planned to go to Josh's house and talk to him face-to-face.

Jill, 32, made a string of troubling comments about her parents, including that they exploited'took advantage' of her and her siblings by tricking them into signing contracts and compeling them to participate in the family's many reality shows against their will - without paying them. Now, Jill, the first of the 19 Duggar children to participate in the docuseries Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets, has returned to the show for the first time since it premiered on June 2nd. "You did a fantastic job on the documentary," one of her followers wrote on Instagram. 'I don't even see any "dishonoring" of your parents,' she replied, 'Thanks.' I adore my parents.'

Deanna, Jim Bob Duggar's sister (pictured left with daughter Amy) has taken to social media to expose her family's "lies" and "disguise" ahead of the release of Amazon Prime Video's "Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets. After her 35-year-old son, Josh Duggar, was arrested and referred to them as a 'fake family,' Deanna, 61, broke ties with her brother and patriarch, 57-year-old Jim Bob Duggar (right inset). She has taken a brave and public stand against her fellow family members, who she claims are 'not who they seem to be.' Deanna posted a photograph of two men walking down the road, with one man's arm around the other (right). But their arm turns into a snake that threatens the other man.

The fourth-eldest child of the increasingly scandal-plagued Duggar family took to Instagram to announce that her explosive tome would be published soon. The 32-year-old woman revealed how her father stopped his children from being paid for their participation in the family's lucrative TLC reality show, as well as the fact that her father went to cover up Josh Duggar's molestation of his own sisters in an Amazon Prime documentary that will air on Friday.

For almost 13 years, the intimate details of the Duggar family's life have been video taped and broadcast to millions of viewers via their various shows. According to Jill, 32, the fourth eldest of the Duggars' 19 children, the Duggars received $18 million over the course of their 21 seasons on TV, but she and her siblings weren't given a single dollar in exchange for footage from her son Israel's birth in 2015 (top right).

The more we learn about Prime Video's forthcoming documentary on the Duggar family, the more we're learning about how awful their lives were. As you might have noticed, the official trailer for Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets was released last week, but the bombshells inside have only been revealed since then. For years, Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar went to whatever extent to avoid their son Josh Duggar's molestation case from being revealed.