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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I finished this last night and wow, so upsetting.  I got the feeling that Jill may take legal action against TLC and/or her parents about the whole lack of payment (listed as a minor) issue.  Maybe the statue of limitations has run out, but who knows?

Also, I wish they had given us an update on the rest of the kids.  Did that older daughter ever get married?  She always seemed the saddest to me. [/quote]

No, Jana never married (she's 33 now).  She recently moved into a small house on the same property as her parents' house.[/quote]

I read that Jana has made multiple 5 year commitments to not date as a promise to God and her family. It's a Bill Gothard/IBLP thing and the ultimate vow of celibacy. Jinger mentioned these vows in an interview, not saying Jana but it felt like she was hinting at that. She said some girls take 10 yr vows.[/quote]

Sounds like the kind of thing you do when marriage isn't for you.[/quote]

Which is especially likely if you are part of a religion where your husband has authority over you and can discipline you.[/quote]
I’ve watched/read former fundie folks talk about oldest daughters not wanting to marry, saying that many of them feel like they’ve already raised children and ran households for most/all their life. Why would they want to do it again, especially with some "courted" skeeveball that's not going to be a good husband? Why go back to that life and responsibility, when right now she has all the time in the world to do her gardening and art, travel, etc.?

I’m not saying it’s her reason, but I could see it playing into her choice for not pursuing that life. [/quote]

+1 of course she doesn’t want to get married to some dude she probably barely knows and have 10 of his kids. I remember all these people saying when the other daughters started to marry and move out that Jim Bob and Michelle were keeping Jana at home and not allowing her to date/court/get married because they needed her help with the younger kids still. But I always saw it as her electing to stay because she could see how the alternative could be worse. Josh is a slimy pedo, Jinger and Jessa’s husbands are blowhards, if she got married in her early-mid 20s to some IBLP-approved guy she’d be back to living in poverty with some guy who doesn’t have the education to do basically anything and expected to have a bunch of kids on top of that. No freaking thanks. [/quote]

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