Duggar News

For months now, the feud between Derick Dillard and Jim Bob Duggar has been creating profound tension within the Duggar family.

And of course, no one has been affected more deeply than Derick's wife and Jim Bob's daughter, Jill Duggar.

A new season of Counting On premiered last night, which is surprising news for a couple of reasons.

For starters, rumors that Counting On had been canceled had been circulating for several months.

As we've mentioned many times before, mom-shaming the women of the Duggar family has become a favorite pastime in certain corners of the internet.

So in a sense, we guess it's refreshing to see that the men of the Counting On clan are now being subjected to the same overzealous concern-trolling!

The last thing Jim Bob Duggar wants is any of his children thinking for themselves or making their own decisions.

And if they insist on doing so, he would probably prefer that that they 1. quickly become miserable and return to his way of doing things, and 2. keep the whole experiment a secret.

Several members of the Duggar family have bucked against Jim Bob's authoritarian rule in recent years.

Some rebellions were expected -- Jinger and Josiah were always bound to forge their own paths through life -- while others came as much more of a surprise.

ATTENTION, LADIES OF AMERICA:

Jason Duggar is coming for you.

Back in May of 2019, Jessa Duggar welcomed her third child.

This was big news in the Duggar-obsessed corners of the Internet, and not only because a new human being had entered the world.

Jinger Duggar has a reputation as one of the more progressive-minded members of her ultra-conservative family.

Last week, however, she said something that had many fans wondering if they'd given her a bit too much credit.

Of all the Duggar children who fled the nest and started families of their own, the one that viewers find most relatable and easiest to root for is Jinger.

Jinger gained a reputation as a rebel in her youth, and she's more than lived up to it in adulthood.

Amy King can't say a whole lot about the Duggars.

She can't spill very many family secrets, as badly as she may want to.

If you know anything about the Duggar family, then you're probably familiar with the infamous Duggar dress code.

There are many absurd rules that the Duggar kids are forced to follow, but perhaps nothing encapsulates the complete control that Jim Bob seeks over his children quite like the dress code.

It's sad, but undeniably true:

The more we hear about the rules and regulations that governed life in the Duggar household, the less we're surprised by the abuse that was allowed to take place under Michelle and Jim Bob's watch.

When a woman marries into the Duggar family, she does so with the knowledge that much will be expected of her.

Specifically, she'll be expected to have babies.

If you're a fan of the Duggar family, then you're probably at least passingly familiar with Jim Bob and Michelle's infamous courtship rules.

The family describes courtship as "dating with a purpose" -- that purpose being to find a suitable mate with whom to make many babies.

These days, just about everyone who appears on a popular reality show supplements their income by posting sponsored content on their Instagram page.

These posts might not be the favorites of their fans, but you can hardly blame the stars for attempting to take full advantage of their fame while they have it.

It was one year ago this week that Joy-Anna Duggar suffered a miscarriage.

These days, Joy-Anna is pregnant with her "rainbow baby," but she still took time out to acknowledge the somber anniversary.

For months now, reports of the feud between Derick Dillard and Jim Bob Duggar have dominated the more Duggar-obsessed corners of the internet.

As you're probably aware, Derick is planning to write a tell-all memoir about his time with the Duggars, and he has repeatedly hinted that Jim Bob will not be portrayed in a flattering light.

These days, it's hard to imagine the Duggar family as anything other than fithy rich.

But when Michelle, Jim Bob, and their (at the time) 14 kids first burst onto the scene with a succession of one-off Discovery Channel specials, they were desperately poor.

When the world learned that Jinger Duggar is pregnant with her second child, the news was greeted with the usual elation and even more surprise than usual among Duggar fans.

Many had begun to suspect that Jinger would buck the family trend of raising unfathomably big families by closing up shop after the birth of her first.

If you're a fan of her fundie family, then you're probably already aware that Jana might be the most obsessed-over of all the Duggars.

Fans can't get enough of her, and it seems the main reason for this phenomenon is that Jana is the only Duggar who might accurately be described as mysterious.

Before they were a reality TV family, the Duggars were a political family.

Jim Bob Duggar held a seat in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002, and he unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for a seat in the United States Senate.

Derick Dillard is resigned to the reality that nothing short of a miracle can restore his relationship with Jim Bob Duggar.

Now, he is explaining the real reason that Jim Bob won't let him or Jill anywhere near their house.