Josiah Duggar

If you're even passingly familiar with the Duggar family, then you probably know about the family's infamous courtship rules.

Lots of evangelicals teach their kids to abstain from sex prior to marriage, but the Duggars take things several steps further:

For several months now, we've been hearing rumors that Josiah Duggar and Lauren Swanson have broken up.

Divorce is strictly forbidden in the Duggars' world, of course, but many are convinced that Josiah and Lauren have gone their separate ways on a trial basis, with the hope that this time apart will prove to be therapeutic.

Marriage and family are not matters that the Duggar family takes lightly.

In fact, Duggar women are raised from a young age to believe that procreation is their primary reason for being.

There's been a whole lot of bad news for the Duggar family in recent months.

In fact, 2021 pretty much consisted of one scandal after another for Jim Bob and company.

It couldn't be... could it?!?

Over the past several years, celebrity gossip lovers have witnessed one surprise after another from the Duggar family.

Whether you're a critic or a fan of the Duggar family, we're sure that by now, you're familiar with the ins and outs of the Josh Duggar child pornography scandal.

With the trial just around the corner, the family is under greater scrtutiny than ever.

In the wake of Josh Duggar's arrest, it appears to some fans that Josiah Duggar and Lauren Swanson are hiding.

With Counting On finally canceled by TLC, the entire family's futures appear to be uncertain.

The members of the Duggar family have been behaving rather strangely in recent months.

Obviously, the Duggars always behave strangely, but the past year has seen Jim Bob and company taking their weirdness to new heights.

The Duggars have always been a secretive bunch. 

That's because if the typical TLC viewer knew all the crazy things the Duggars believe, they probably wouldn't be so quick to relax and enjoy the Counting On hijinks.

When Lauren Swanson married Josiah Duggar, she seemed very eager not only to become his wife but also to be a part of the famed Duggar family.

It's not hard to see why she was so excited.

Take note, Derick Dillard, Jill Duggar, and everyone else who's been cast out of Jim Bob's kingdom:

It is possible to move on and even thrive without the fundamentalist fame that only Arkansas' most sanctimonious blowhard can bestow:

Any large family has its favorites and its black sheep.

In a family the size of the Duggar clan, there are enough kids in each category that they could play an annual softball game against each other with the prize being a silent nod of approval from Jim Bob for the winning team.

A new season Counting On is usually the sort of thing that generates major excitement and endless conversation among Duggar fans on social media.

But for reasons that are not immediately evident, that hasn't been the case with the show's most recent episodes.

Earlier this week, we reported on the rumor that Josiah Duggar and Lauren Swanson are miserable in their marriage.

For reasons that aren't entirely clear, fans have become convinced that Josiah was forced by his father to marry Lauren and has been deeply unhappy ever since.