Jim Bob Duggar

Anna Duggar could make many, many legitimate complaints about her in-laws.

After all, these are the people who protected Josh Duggar after he molested five young girls, a decision that led to her marrying a child molester.

Jill Duggar has come out swinging against her parents.

As you've very likely read by now, the former reality star decided to go public a few weeks ago with her estragement from various members of her famous family.

It is, officially, all out in the open now.

For many months, the Internet was forced to speculate on where things stood between Jill Duggar and her parents, Jim Bob and Michelle.

Jim Bob Duggar must be feeling a little less powerful these days.

After all, the only reason he had any power to begin with is that his kids never questioned his authority.

We've known for years that Jim Bob Duggar is a high-class hoarder.

For a long time, fans wondered how he could possibly manage to be both a compulsive shopper and a father of 19 at the same time.

There was a time when Jill Duggar was considered the "safest" of all of Jim Bob's children -- the one who was most likely to follow in the patriarch's footsteps and carry on his fundamentalist legacy.

Needless to say, those days are long gone.

Josh Duggar is a bad man.

And we don't mean that he parks in front of fire hydrants or steals his co-workers' lunches out of the break room fridge.

The members of the Duggar family are almost as closely associated with Arkansas as they are with the religious fundamentalism and obsession with breeding that initially made them famous.

They're the state's second most famous family (behind the Waltons of Wal-Mart renown), and Jim Bob ranks among its wealthiest residents.

When the feud between Derick Dillard and Jim Bob Duggar first became public knowledge, it was unclear if Jill would side with her husband or remain loyal to her father.

Now, however, it's abundantly clear that Jill Duggar is 100 percent Team Derick and no longer gives a damn what her dad thinks.

Five years ago, the Josh Duggar sex scandals nearly brought the Duggar family's media empire crashing down.

Astonishingly, the Duggars' reputation survived -- at least among diehard fans -- and it wasn't long before Jim Bob and company returned to the same network that made them famous.

Michelle Duggar knows what folks have been saying for years about her husband. 

Some say he's considered a controlling manipulator (right, Derick Dillard?) and others say he's been the enabler of a horrible molestation spree (preach, anyone familar with the Josh Duggar scandal)...

It's been a while since the Duggar clan has been embroiled in a major public scandal.

It looked like real trouble was brewing when a car dealership owned by the family was raided by Homeland Security agents in 2019, but amazingly, almost a year later, no charges have been filed, and the incident remains shrouded in mystery.

Looking back, perhaps we should have known this day would come.

In retrospect, it seems obvious that Jill Duggar would eventually be the first of her many siblings to really rebel against Jim Bob Duggar.