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I agree with your assessment of them. While the Duggars were being really negligent and need to quit the bill Gotherd stuff (they were handling the situation the way the booklets said), most of the people mad at them already hated them for being fundamentalists or something.By LINK
If it isn't a legal requirement, is it unethical for a parent to discipline the child and deal with the situation using other means without reporting drug use to the state?
Has your son, in his youth, ever done anything technically illegal that you could have turned him in to the police for?
Good questions Link!
If it isn't a legal requirement, is it unethical for a parent to discipline the child and deal with the situation using other means without reporting drug use to the state?
In the Duggars case it is unethical for Mr. Jim_Bob to not involve the state. Why? Because Jim-Bob is heavily involved in the state’s involvement in private lives. “From 1999 to 2002, Duggar served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for the sixth district, which included part of northern Washington County, Arkansas, Duggar was vice chair of the House Corrections and Criminal Law Subcommittee…” Jim-Bob has been involved in a lot of political organizations and unsuccessfully ran for senate in 2002. The Family Research Council that he is a member of is very active in trying to get the state to pass laws about families and sexual issues.
With Mr. Duggar’s heavy involvement with the state and the state’s laws regarding families, it word be unethical for him to take the position that in his case, with a son that has molested, to exclude the state!
Has your son, in his youth, ever done anything technically illegal that you could have turned him in to the police for?
Yes my son did commit an illegal activity (not molestation) and I did not turn him in. However on several other occasions I did turn him in.
I am very skeptical of parents that claim that they would always turn their minor child in for committing an illegal act or that they would never try to take care of the issue within the family and some outside help. People say that they would always report the child and I say talk is cheap and when it gets down to your minor child I think many parents would fail to report the child to the police. Of course it depends a lot on the illegal crime does it not?
I think a lot of people are influenced and outraged by the fact that Mr. Jim-Bob Duggar is so active in laws against sexual issues yet he did not take actions against his son according to his own statement in his quest for the senate in 2002. Repeated below is what Mr. Dugger said
Jim-Bob Duggar said: Rape and incest represent heinous crimes and as such should be treated as capital crimes.
You do not asses capital punishment for a minor of 14 years old in the USA. Although Jim-Bob was probably referring to adults in his statement above, his recent news about his son will really infuriate many people. He did turn his son into a police officer, got him counseling, and sent him to a work camp to help build homes but that is miles away from capital punishment.
With Jim-Bob’s statement above and his actions regarding his son’s molestation he deserves to not only be called out on that but also to expect the disgust that he is getting from some people.
However, I think some of the other disgust and berating of the Duggar parents is because the Duggars have a different way of living their life based upon their interpretation of the Bible. Most of that berating is based on the berater’s personal opinions and most are not because the Duggers are violating scriptures.
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