Just a heads up, today's episode talks about child abuse.

You don't want your kids to be safe.

You want them to be under your control.

There are No Girls on the Internet as a production of IHeart Radio and Unbossed Creative.

I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

On their Discovery reality show, 19 kids and counting, the Dugger family was portrayed as a sweet, loving, close-knit family.

Parents Michelle and Jim Bob Dugger were raising their 19 children, nine daughters, and 10 sons to be pure, modest, and godly, which includes strict gender roles, having lots of kids,

and of course, homeschooling. But behind the cheery, upbeat show, masked a very deep darkness.

Josh Dugger, the oldest son, sexually abused girls, including his younger sisters.

He's serving a 12-year sentence after authorities found child sexual abuse material on his computer.

The Duggers followed the Institute in Basic Life Principles, or IBLP, a Christian organization

founded by Minister Bill Gothard in 1961 that purports to teach families to find success

through strict adherence to IBLP's interpretation of the Bible. Gender roles are rigid.

Women are inferior to the male heads of household. Children must strictly

obey their parents, and all of this, all of these norms, are enforced through abuse. But it's

not just about how individual families run their households. Because of what's called Christian

dominionism, the idea that Christians like the Duggers should take control over government and

society, religious zealots are striving for more and more control over all of our lives.

Eve Ettinger hosts a podcast called Kitchen Table Colts, where they talk about life as an ex,

someone who got out of a cult. Their story is featured in the new Amazon Prime documentary about the Duggers called

Shiny Happy People.

Hi, I'm Eve Aventure, and I am on the board at the Coalition for Responsible Home Education.

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