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‘They Couldn’t Understand Why We Pray’—Melissa Joan Hart Takes Family Mission Trip to Zambia

Actor Melissa Joan Hart shared about her work as an ambassador for the Christian humanitarian aid organization World Vision and her recent trip to Zambia.

Quick-Thinking Uber Driver Saves 16-Year-Old Passenger From Sex Trafficking

“It struck me as odd because she was so young.”

Husband Curses Wife’s Boots as He Trips Over Them—When He Realizes Where They’ve Been, He’s in Tears

Here they were. Brown boots, fuzzy on the inside, worn ragged but sturdy as fresh leather, covered in dog hair and the permanent crumbs of family life.

Jill Duggar to Dad Jim Bob: “You Treat Me Worse Than My Pedophile Brother”

As far as publicity goes, reality tv star Jim Bob Duggar is not having a great year. First, daughter Jinger Duggar Vuolo’s memoir got a lot of press for criticizing the legalistic fundamentalist brand of Christianity in which they were raised. Then, the Amazon documentary Shiny Happy People raked the Duggars and their affiliation with Bill Gothard’s Institute for Basic Life Priniciples over the coals. And finally, a new, scathing memoir by daughter Jill Duggar Dillard released this week, and an excerpt published in People Magazine shows that it does not portray Jim Bob Duggar in a positive light at all. 

As a matter of fact, during an argument over Jim Bob’s refusal to pay Jill and her husband Derick Dillard for their participation in the reality show Jill and Jessa: Counting On (a show, which I will point out, was literally named after Jill), she says she told him “You treat me worse than my pedophile brother!”

She is referring of course, to her brother Josh Duggar, who sexually molested Jill and some of her sisters when she was young, and is currently serving a prison sentence for downloading child sex abuse material. Jill says both in her book and in the Shiny Happy People documentary that she was devastated when Josh’s abuse of her came to light. She says it was something she had hoped would always stay private, and she still does not like to talk about it. She intentionally leaves those painful details of what her brother did to her out of her book, but does say that she was sickened and could barely eat for weeks when the abuse became known to the world.

Among other accusations that Jill makes against her father, whom she says she “no longer sees one-on-one” is that he paid Josh to be on the reality show 19 Kids and Counting but refused to pay the Duggar daughters, and that he has threatened to lower her inheritance because she has asked to be paid for work she and her husband have done on the show. Eventually, Jim Bob Duggar offered his older children a one-time payment of $80,000 each as compensation, but Jill and Derick turned it down, knowing it was not enough. They later found out that Jim Bob had made $8 million for the reality shows.

Jenny Rapson
Jenny Rapsonhttp://www.foreverymom.com
Jenny Rapson is a wife and mom of three from Ohio and the editor of For Every Mom. You can also find her alternately griping and gushing about her kids at her own blog, Mommin' It Up. You can email her at jrapson@outreach.com, or follow her on Twitter.

‘They Couldn’t Understand Why We Pray’—Melissa Joan Hart Takes Family Mission Trip to Zambia

Actor Melissa Joan Hart shared about her work as an ambassador for the Christian humanitarian aid organization World Vision and her recent trip to Zambia.

Quick-Thinking Uber Driver Saves 16-Year-Old Passenger From Sex Trafficking

“It struck me as odd because she was so young.”

Husband Curses Wife’s Boots as He Trips Over Them—When He Realizes Where They’ve Been, He’s in Tears

Here they were. Brown boots, fuzzy on the inside, worn ragged but sturdy as fresh leather, covered in dog hair and the permanent crumbs of family life.