Blanket Training and Locked Doors — A Psychotherapist on the Duggar Children
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
The Duggar arrests have dominated headlines. The charges against Joseph. The charges against Kendra. The family's reported response. But almost no one is talking about the children at the center of all of it.
Four children under the age of eight in Joseph and Kendra's home — both parents arrested, locks on the outside of their bedroom doors, their father transported to Florida on felony charges. Seven children being raised by Anna Duggar while Josh serves a federal prison sentence. And a documented family child-rearing practice — blanket training — that involves physically striking infants who try to crawl off a designated blanket in order to break their will.
Hidden Killers host Tony Brueski sits down with psychotherapist Shavaun Scott for Part 2 of a three-part conversation examining what these children are actually living through. Scott brings thirty years of clinical expertise in trauma and child development, along with her own experience growing up inside a fundamentalist religious system.
What does a child under eight actually process when their entire world collapses? What does blanket training do to a developing brain? And can children raised inside a system of total control grow into healthy adults?
This is Part 2 of 3.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers Live with Tony Brewski and Robin Dree. |
| 0:07.8 | Four children under the age of eight live in Joseph and Kendra Dugger's home. |
| 0:13.0 | Both of their parents have been arrested and released now. |
| 0:16.6 | Investigators allegedly found locks on the outside of their bedroom door. |
| 0:21.6 | That's an interesting aspect to this case. |
| 0:25.2 | Those are misdemeanors. |
| 0:26.5 | She's facing child and I think child endangerment charges or imprisonment. |
| 0:30.7 | I don't have the exact verbiage in front of me. |
| 0:32.8 | So is key, but they are minor charges in Arkansas. |
| 0:35.7 | It was triggered because of the Florida charges. |
| 0:38.5 | Let's talk about that for a minute |
| 0:40.5 | because it seems like it's a footnote to this story, |
| 0:43.8 | but let's talk about reversing locks on children's doors. |
| 0:47.3 | Number one, it's a fire hazard to lock somebody in their room |
| 0:51.2 | or to even accidentally have that going on. |
| 1:00.4 | But let's talk about more of the psychological end of this, the dangers of doing something like that, why it's actually a crime. |
| 1:04.0 | Can you speak to that a little bit more, Chavon, as to why one would be having the locks on |
| 1:10.1 | the opposite sides of the doors. |
| 1:13.4 | Yeah, that was interesting to me when I read that. |
| 1:16.5 | And, you know, I raised three kids many years ago, |
| 1:19.2 | but I certainly put them in their bedroom for timeout on occasion. |
| 1:22.7 | I never even thought about putting a lock and locking them in there. |
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