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Jessa Duggar Appears to Have Turned Her Back on Josh Duggar, Will Rest of Family Follow?

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A few weeks ago Josh Duggar confirmed that he had indeed opened an Ashley Madison account and spent a chunk of cash to cheat on his wife, Anna Duggar. He has since checked into some sort of faith-based rehab facility that works with sex addicts and the rest of the family has stayed pretty quiet, at least until this week, when his sister Jessa Duggar directed her Twitter followers to a scathing post by her by her father-in-law, Michael Seewald. After reading it, many have come to the conclusion that Jessa has now turned her back on Josh.

What is a bit interesting in this is the fact that Jessa is one of the sisters that Josh admitted to molesting years ago and she had given interviews earlier this summer stating that she had forgiven him for that. Yet cheating on his young wife is something that Jessa, at least at this point, seems to be the kind of offense that is relationship severing. Is it that she sees his cheating as worse, or is it that is a variation on the same kind of theme and Jessa wants to now distance herself from Josh's entire situation?

If Jessa is seeming to publicly indicate that she is through trying to support her brother, could the rest of the family be far behind? Do you think that her other sisters will follow suit? It seems pretty unlikely that Bob and Michelle Duggar, Josh's parents would completely turn their backs on him, doesn't it?

Daily Boom Interviewed by Fox News Regarding Josh Duggar Scandal and TLC's Damage Control

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While TLC may have canceled 19 Kids & Counting due to family secrets coming to light, the network has been doing damage control for months with no real end in sight. Last fall we learned that Honey Boo Boo's mother had rekindled a romance with a child molester and mere months after that rocked TLC executives were left to navigate through the rough waters of Josh Duggar confessing to have molested his sisters. The devastation didn't end with that either because in the last week or so Duggar admitted to having an active Ashley Madison account. The bottom line is that the Duggar's are not the squeaky clean Christians that their image insinuated and TLC looks pretty bad for not researching its "stars".

Tonight a documentary on sexual abuse is scheduled to air opposite MTV's VMA's and the network is hoping that it will help to balance out some of their damaging programming that has aired. Fox News contacted me this past week to weigh in on the topic and you can read the full article here. Do you think that this admittedly important documentary will bring the network some good press and serve as a stepping stone towards returning to educational programming?

 Ironically, TLC- originally called The Learning Channel, began as exactly that, a stop on the dial where you were sure to learn something. Unfortunately in recent years  they jumped onto the reality television bandwagon and it has really cost them in the long run. 

Will TLC's Sex Abuse Documentary Change Their Scandalous Image?

This Sunday night TLC is hoping that by airing a documentary on sexual abuse they'll be able to counteract all of the recent negative press. The network freely admits that this documentary is a direct reaction to Josh Duggar's admission last May that he molested four of his younger sisters over a decade ago. As horrific as that admission was, the hits have just kept coming for this family that was once placed on a pedestal for their supposedly wholesome lifestyle.

In the last few weeks we have learned that Duggar also had an Ashley Madison account and had paid porn stars for sex. He is currently in a religious rehab while his wife is left to wrangle their 4 small kids while dealing with the shame that her husband has brought to the family.

While TLC's documentary is likely to benefit someone, somewhere it doesn't change the fact that the people in their casting department have failed to do their job in digging into the background of the people that they choose to feature, right?

Josh Duggar Enters Religious-Based Rehab as Cheating Scandal Continues

Nearly a week after the news broke that Josh Duggar was a paying customer of Ashley Madison's infidelity services, the hits keep coming. A porn star by the name of Danica Dillion has reportedly passed a lie detector test that seems to prove that Duggar paid her for sex twice earlier this year, while his wife was pregnant with their fourth child. Not long after Dillion's story started circulating the Duggar family issued a statement on their official site claiming that their son has checked himself into a long term addiction treatment facility.

The Duggar family issued an official statement today saying, “We are so thankful for the outpouring of love, care and prayers for our family during this most difficult situation with Josh. As parents we are so deeply grieved by our son’s decisions and actions. His wrong choices have deeply hurt his precious wife and children and have negatively affected so many others. He has also brought great insult to the values and faith we hold dear. Yesterday Josh checked himself into a long-term treatment center. For him it will be a long journey toward wholeness and recovery. We pray that in this he comes to complete repentance and sincere change. In the meantime, we will be offering our love, care and devoted support to Anna and our grandchildren as she also receives counsel and help for her own heart and future. During this time we continue to look to God—He is our rock and comfort. We ask for your continued prayers for our entire family.”

Probably the biggest question of all is whether or not Anna Duggar will choose to remain married. So far she has yet to issue any kind of statement at all about her husband's infidelity  and the situation has to be a real slap in the face to the young mom of four, including a newborn. Dillion has alleged that she expects more women to come forward and make accusations against Duggar. Do you think it will happn?

Anna Duggar Likely to Take the Blame for Husband Josh Duggar's Cheating

Once the scandal first broke online it didn't take Josh Duggar long to admit that he had indeed cheated on his wife of seven years, Anna Duggar, while using an Ashley Madison account. The 27-year-old has spent the last few years peddling family values and pretending to be a Christian role model while poor Anna has delivered four babies in rapid succession. She has remained silent since her husband admitted to living a fairly active double life and insiders are now saying that regardless of what Duggar has done, divorce simply won't be an option.

According to a new report by People, "Anna Duggar will likely not be leaving her husband Josh despite his admitted infidelity, a source with ties to the family tells PEOPLE. “Anna will not leave him,” says the source. “As with her in-laws, she is turning more to her faith than ever, she and Josh are probably praying around the clock right now, I would assume.”  The source says that from their knowledge of the Duggar family, Josh and Anna, “no way is she leaving him” – and says it would not come as a surprise if “on some level” Anna tries to “absorb some of the blame.”

“Maybe not publicly, ever, but privately, there will be some suggestion of whether or not she should have been more aware of the pressures Josh was under, of the issues he was facing, and how she could have better counseled him or helped him,” says the source. “She is fully and permanently committed to her marriage and her children. And she’ll have the support of Jim Bob and Michelle and everyone else in their circle in terms of staying with him and making this work,” continues the source. “Divorce is not even something that will be discussed.”

Last spring Duggar admitted to molesting four of his younger sisters well over a decade ago and at the time his wife spoke out professing her support for him. As horrific as that situation was, Duggar hadn't done anything directly to Anna to cause her pain. This situation is entirely different and it's hard to imagine that she is being so forgiving of the hurt and public scrutiny that his cheating has brought to them.

While the Duggar family will no doubt push Anna to stay married, do you think that she is having second thoughts now? Is Anna trapped in this marriage and if so do you think that there's any chance that she'll break free of the controlling Duggar family?

Josh Duggar Reportedly Was an Ashley Madison Client

It seems to be the week of fallen supposed role models, doesn't it? First we learned that former Subway spokesperson Jared Fogle had struck a plea deal for kiddie porn charges and now we're hearing even more uncomfortable news about Josh Duggar. Not that he was exactly warm and fuzzy anyway. Duggar recently admitted to initiating sexual contact with five minors over a decade ago and the fallout ultimately lead to TLC pulling the plug on The Duggar's reality show, 19 Kids and Counting. Now the 27-year-old married father of four's name has been listed on the client list for popular cheating website, Ashley Madison.

According to an exclusive report by Gawker, "Someone using a credit card belonging to a Joshua J. Duggar, with a billing address that matches the home in Fayetteville, Ark. owned by his grandmother Mary — a home that was consistently shown on their now-canceled TV show, and in which Anna Duggar gave birth to her first child — paid a total of $986.76 for two different monthly Ashley Madison subscriptions from February of 2013 until May of 2015. In July 2013, he seems to have started a second account that was linked to his home in Oxon Hill, Md., where he spent his time lobbying against causes like same-sex marriage."

I have to wonder what Duggar's long suffering wife Anna Duggar is thinking about this latest round of allegations. She stuck by him when he admitted to molesting four of his sisters over a decade ago. Do you think she'll be as gracious about this if she is able to match the information published online against their actual credit card accounts?