19 Kids and Counting (5/21/2015)

As a kid I loved watching the show 19 Kids and Counting. How can you have 19 kids??? I only have one sibling, imagine living in an isolated, extremely religious house with 18 siblings! I could binge watch this show simply based on how different their lives were from mine.
The girls on this show wore skirts to their knees. Everyone was home schooled. Sex and partying were out of the question. Makes you think all these kids are saints. Today I learned that's not true!
Josh Duggar, the oldest son in the family with three kids of his own already and a fourth on the way, allegedly assaulted several young girls, some of whom are his sisters in his young teenage years. I read about this in an article by The Huffington Post, which quoted the family on the issue. They used many terms to describe his actions.
In the short article, various family members refer to Josh molesting young girls as "wrongdoings", "wrong road", "difficult times", and "bad mistakes". Not once in either the son's nor the father's statement do they actually address what happened, or say Josh's consequences. In fact, Josh didn't even have to serve jail time, because the matter wasn't reported until over 3 years after it happened.
Both of the statements were from men. None of the girls or other family members involved were asked about how they feel on this issue, just people in power who make Josh's "mistakes" look like, well, mistakes. This show is getting bad publicity now no matter what. I am disappointed that they couldn't have a quote from a female family member on the issue, something that maybe didn't look upon the family as God's children in this case.
I think that the euphemisms used by the family aren't just for them to be seen better in God's eyes, but the media's eyes as well. Not clearly addressing that you sexually offended your siblings might get you in a tiny bit less trouble than you would have gotten in otherwise.  The family actually referred to this action as something needed to be forgiven by God, making in completely non secular and drifting away from the issue. Reading the father's statement, you can see that he turned it into a lesson from God, preaching to all readers. This is absolutely horrible. Not only should people need to live up to their actions, but no media outlet should let them turn this into a positive thing, that will "cause you to see the kindness of God and learn that He can bring you through anything."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/21/josh-duggar-apologizes-child-molestation_n_7417688.html