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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Derek is getting salty on his Instagram.  He just asked a goader "How do know they're not trying to leave?" ("they're" are other Duggars).  Then he wrote that "The didn't know what we knew when we knew it" and "based on our history, I don't know what scare tactics are used on the others to keep them compliant."  Among other stuff.

Derek is turning into a fun loose cannon now.  He was already pissed that Jim Bob banned Jill from the family compound, and now that this is out, Derek seems ready to blow.  I hope he signs a tell-all deal soon and we find out what it is he and Jill "knew when we knew it" and also what "scare tactics" Jim Bob is using to keep his adult kids in line.  [/quote]

The scare tactics have got to be $$. The Duggars were basically in poverty before their show took off. They didn’t have real health insurance. They lived in a 3/1 ranch house. Only second hand clothes and only Aldi shopping. They had some income coming in but were very stretched having 14 kids. I’m sure the older kids can remember what it was like, and now they’re adults with family of their own. I assume JB controls all the purse strings from TLC money from their early specials, and if the kids stray too far, they don’t get their money anymore. Not so much of an issue for Jill and Derek as they have a normal sized family and D has an actual college education from a real, actual, PUBLIC(!) college. So he has income options. Some of the other ones, eh not so much. They’re stuck in the family business of, like, being low rent landlords and selling sketchy used cars. And trying to rake in a bit of money on social media. [/quote]

It also seems like when the eldest kids were little, they suffered from food insecurity. So it wasn't just a big family living in a small house full of bunk beds, they had too many mouths to feed and not enough tator tots. [/quote]

I think so too, definitely. Their diet was a regular subject of discussion when the first special aired. They would load up on canned and frozen foods at Aldi but very few if any fresh fruits and vegetables. And other fundamentalist families are known via their own blogs to have very “light” meals, because it’s hard to feed a family of 2 adults and at least 4 kids (and usually more) on the shoestring incomes they bring in. I’m not too sure if they’re forbidden or discouraged from getting government assistance - I mean they all vote against it and are anti-government in general, but I don’t know if that’s really an ideological belief or if it’s more in the sense of “it’s ok for me and people like me, but not for those other people.” [/quote]

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