Josh Duggar | Analysis of Allegations 

I was raised Christian and conservative and homeschooled and my wife and I caught one of my brothers molesting one of my daughters. We reported it immediately to authorities and my family cut us off. The case has still yet to go to trial. It’s been 4 years. But I have no regrets. I would’ve done it again even if I had known what would’ve happened. We must speak out and we must protect our children, no matter the cost.

I’m honestly more interested in the psychology behind Anna, his wife, and why she is unable to bring herself to leave him even though he is a danger to not only children but their own.

The problem is that his parents didn't care that their little girls were being assaulted. If they did there would have been no conflict at all about turning him into the police.

I always felt bad for the older Duggar kids, especially the girls, because it wasn’t their decision to keep adding to the family yet they were the ones saddled with caring for all the kids.

“Oh look at me; I’m technically alive! When did that become a skill?” Dr. Grande bringin’ the shade like a boss.

Will the next spin off be called "19 years to life"? Lock the parents up while they're at it. They tried to cover this up.

The girls all wanting a single room in the house makes sense. They thought there would be safety in numbers to protect them from Josh. Clearly there was no one else there to protect them

I was molested by my step dad from the ages of 7-12 and he was never held accountable and has recommitted his crimes over the past 50 years with no repercussions whatsoever and I just don’t understand why these men are rarely brought to justice, they just keep getting away with it.

I don’t care if you’re my son, if you do this to your SISTERS or any other girl, I’m turning you in!!!!!! This is unacceptable.

The parents cared more for their own reputations (and money making opportunities) and their precious son than they did about their own daughters who were victimized.

The Duggar’s have one daughter who married, but she and her husband chose to not join the Duggar’s church, although they are Christians. Because of this, the daughter and her husband have been shunned by the family.... one of the cardinal signs of a cult.

I grew up in the church that tried to "rehabilitate" Duggar through prayer and physical labor. I left when I was in my teens, long before this. The church declared Josh cured as he managed not to reoffend during his stay. He was housed with adult men and not given access to anything other than a Bible and his "character workbook." All his waking hours were spent in physical labor or prayer. How much trouble could he get into in that environment? Plus, the church and "addictions ministry" are run by a pastor who claims to have a PhD, but doesn't. What he has is a Messiah Complex. Think Jim Jones with less drugs.

"People were paying attention to the family, because of its... size." Love that delivery!

One of his first mistakes was describing his family as "the epitome of Christian values." None of us should hold ourself up to that kind of standard, because that's just not true.

Court allowed Josh to be around his children with Anna supervision. If she’s blind to his behavior does anyone honestly believe she’ll watch him?

Over 200 images of children from the ages of 18 months to 12 years old and in the top 5 worst the agent has ever seen...🤢 Can't even imagine how those who have to investigate these images must feel and the psychological impact it must have on them. I do not want that job ever, no amount of money can convince me to do it. Loads of respect and sympathy to those who have to do this job. Josh's wife creeps me out too, I get she is conditioned to stand by her man but heck when is enough, enough?

Wait, wait, hold on here--I've had to rewind this a few times--so James Hutchins, an Arkansas State Trooper, a man Josh was counseled by, went to prison too for child pornography? Wait, What?! My brain can't take all this in at one time. Geez...can this get more weirder/infuriating? What the h***?

Considering his mug shot smirk he thinks he will get away with this again. Repeat offenders are the most dangerous. I hope they put him away. Cannot believe that Judge let him back around his kids!

I was molested by my stepfather my entire childhood. I don't think sexual offenders will ever stop. They are literally built different or something. IDK...it's horrible

"oh wow they had children"-"Who could of seen that coming, where did that idea even come from" LOL

Did I just hear that correctly, the man who Josh confessed to was himself later arrested for crimes against children!?

As a survivor of csa by my biological father, I love to see abusers go to jail. As they should. As they only see there victims as tools for there own sexual gratification. With disregard to them as a person. In a way, its almost not even personal. As victims are often picked out of accses. I hope the cycle of abuse can be stoped in that family. I wish the survivors out there all the best. The statutes for sexual crimes regarding children, should not have a run out. In my country, the statute is life long. As, research has shown, it can take decades for survivors to come to grip with the abuse, and be mentaly healthy enought to come forward. I came forward when I was 5, and still CPS and the police had trouble trying to prosses my case. The justice system is set up to deal with offendrs, not victims. One of the reasons justice is so hard to fight for. I'm now 36. And still with concreate evidence, trying to get justice. For myself, and other victims.

Dr. Grande, do you plan to do an update now that Josh has been found guilty?

I’m really scared to find out what he’s done to his own kids. Did Anna let him be alone with them? It makes me sick just thinking about it.

The families image was more important than the victims, and that is unforgivable, shame on them.

Lock him up!! Josh needs to be removed from the possibility of harming children for the rest of his life. The odds of cure is small and not worth the threat to another child!

"Somebody's thinking about getting married. Oh, they got married. Wow. They're having children. Who could have seen that coming." Hilarious.

This man's dry just deadpan humor. Is something I want to have one day.

Arkansas has a statute of limitations on incestuous sexual assault: it's about ten minutes.

I have a solution. Since there is no treatment and these perverts will keep re-offending, brand the word “Pedophile” into their foreheads. That way we can immediately know who, and what, they are. If they are offended by this . . . too bad. We have to protect our children.

I read somewhere that the Duggar girls were not allowed to shower in privacy because they might "touch themselves". They always had to have a sibling in the bathroom with them. This is just sick! The parents had a preoccupation with sexualizing their children, specifically the girls. There are some deep, dark, disturbing things going on with Jim Bob & Michelle.

Sexual offenders are sorry when they are CAUGHT!!! Thank you Dr. Grande🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴

I am disgusted by these parents, JimBob and Michelle. Nothing they did was "Christian". Hypocrisy thy name is Duggar. As always, I thank you so much for this video, Dr. Grande.

“Can you believe TLC stands for The Learning Channel” is one of my dad’s favorite things to say

Statute of limitations angers me more and more each day 😡 Our system is so crappy at protecting victims and the culture of victim blaming makes it’s so difficult for people to bring offenses forward that three year statute is complete bullish!t

It sounds like the crimes he committed when he was a young teenager may have been more serious than what we were lead to believe. Given he was still quite young himself and experiencing lots of changes in hormones', I can imagine that a lot of parents in that scenario might want to believe he was just confused rather than immediately shipping him off to jail. However, hearing now that a baby sitter was also a victim, that does changes things. At the time, they made it sound like it was just "inappropriate" touching but I'm suspicious that perhaps it was a lot more than that.

The parents let their daughters down big time to cover up for their wonderful son

These are things that can happen when someone grows up in a bubble and taught sex is a shameful sin while also taught that women are put here for men's use.

His parents made decisions based on money and protecting their money.

I think Dr. Grande should actually be the voice for audio books and the new siri honestly his voice is so soothing

That whole family is a mess. They allowed him to get away with m0lesting girls (including his sisters) almost 20 years ago! This isn’t a shock. I just feel bad for his children and victims. The “program” he was sent to was just a family friend... he was never punished and that’s why he kept doing more until he got caught. He deserves a long prison sentence and never to be around any children ever again.

Thank you for this analysis! I’d love an analysis of Jim Bob and Michelle (how they fell into a cult, how horribly they raised their kids, etc). One of the kids, Jill, isn’t allowed around her siblings unsupervised because she developed a mind of her own. Which the parents seem to think is worse than Josh’s behavior.

As a victim from my birth parents and in foster care, I can say that it messes with ones head for the rest of their lives. And my foster family supported their own kids over reporting the problems. In fact, they were also part of the problem. Josh just makes me sick. I hope they throw his full sentence at him.

Hutchins: if I had known there were multiple victims, I would've done more to stop him. One molested sister is totally okay. More would be a problem.

I want to add "I'm technically alive" to the skills section of my resume now lol

Did I hear that right, Hutchins the cop, a close family friend who gave him a stern lecture got 56 years for CP? That sure makes you wonder what they really talked about or if this older cop helped him get CP.

"Oh look someone's getting married...having children...who could've seen that coming? Doc, you're killing me! 😹

So jim Bob is told by his daughter that her older brother (jb and Michelle's oldest son) has been "inappropriate" with 4 of his daughters, (btw, one of those 4 daughters was under the age of 4 at the time.... "😢" ... jb didnt believe it but finally jd was confronted and instead of getting him psychiatric treatment and calling the authorities, jb sent golden boy to "camp" and turns out, began referring to the daughter that told, as the family tattletale....

At this point it seems like maybe there should just be a crime called “being like Josh Duggar”.

I was raised in a family only slightly less strict and baby crazy than the Duggars. My 2 daughters were molested by a family member I saw at the pulpit every weekend - starting when they were 3 & 4 and continuing for several years. My dauģhters didn't tell me until they were in their late twenties because they knew I would seriously go after him. The stricter the religion, the more pedophilia abounds - a sad fact.

“A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches.” Ones sin affects the entire family.

I inhaled my coffee and almost drowned in it when you said the Trooper was convicted of CP. I was already disgusted that he just gave a "stern talking to", and wasn't expecting him to be guilty of it himself. Edit: typo

This was tough to get through. Thank you for putting the victims first. Sibling sexual abuse is more prevalent in our society than people realize. It needs to be talked about more. We need to teach children about sex better and earlier, and we need not to punish and blame victims.

I had watched the show in the beginning. I remember the episode when he was getting ready to marry Anna. His dad handed him a book that he was supposed to read to talk about the night of their wedding since supposedly they had not been together sexually. What Josh said to his dad when he got that book gave me chills to my bone… He said “so I’m gonna have a real live working model after tomorrow!” That disturbed me so much… It showed me in that moment that she was a play thing to him not a human being. His dad took note of that statement as well and became visibly uncomfortable. I knew this was going to happen or something like it. Because I saw in that moment that he was not right in the head. I will never forget it.

The law inforcement officer was a friend of Jim Bob's. He even got caught for child or n and went to prison.I wonder about Jim Bob too.

Conservative Christian Cult better explains the Duggar’s “religion “.

There should be no statute of limitations for child molestation! Especially when you consider how difficult it is for victims to come forward and confront their abuser. The path for victims to report on abuse should be made as smooth as possible. I'm shocked that an obstacle in the form of this 3 year statute of limitations exists.

I would be super interested in hearing what Dr. Grande thinks of family vlogging. Specifically what long term effects might be for kids who's parents vlog their every move.

I found Dr. grande a few weeks ago and I’ve been binging ever since ! I’ve added him to my fall asleep list too lol his voice is so soothing.

Very impressed with your show - first time viewer here. So logical and very compassionate. Hard to be both. ❣️

I never sit through the entirety of a sponsorship ad, but I did for you Dr. Grande

Is that a smirk on ol' Josh's face in that mug shot? Sure looks like a smirk to me.

Is there research on identifying common factors in a perpetrators childhood that contribute to their developing pedophilia? Is it learned behavior, genetics or both? Great analysis Dr. Grande - keep them coming!

The only “effective” treatment for this problem in my opinion is prison for life or having a 24/7 babysitter watching your every single move so you don’t hurt anyone!!

“Oh look at me, I’m technically alive.” Vlogers have left the chat.

Hypothetically, if someone like him with his history is guilty of receiving and possessing CP, what are the chances he has not acted inappropriately with his own children?

I really enjoyed you talk. It was done without emotion concerning this whole horrible situation. I took a short course with the DSM 4R. We had someone come in to discuss crimes of this nature. One thing that impressed me was the speaker said recovery was around 1.4 percent

“Oh look at me. I’m alive.” So many good one-liners in this one, Dr. Grande! 🤣

i'm not surprised about this. he didn't even get real help and his family defended his ass off, and they'll probably continue to defend him regarding this

Homeland security said " was in the top 5 worst cases they have investigated" you know they have already seen some terrible things in that job. I also want to add Michelle Duggar's voice makes my ears bleed !

I’m intellectually addicted to you and your channel.. I have Dissociative amnesia (DID) and have not disassociated in 3 yr.. The mental health system in this country is unfortunate and it’s stigma is like steel.... I’m very interested in this case and have not been able to watch anything on the case because the verbiage triggers my trauma... thank you Dr.Grande for your dedication to and for mental health it needs your view and understanding...

Dr. Todd..Can you do a session about ultra religious groups and the suppression of children’s sexuality? Being raised in an environment that denies that we are sexual beings and shamed for having these feelings is extremely damaging to a child’s psyche. It’s no surprise that Duggar has inappropriate sexual desires, and he shares this issue with numerous religious “men of God “throughout the world. I will take a giant leap here and state from my observation of the Duggar family...Josh’s malformed thinking is the result of being raised in this rigid family system that looks at sex as a sinful act .

Your dry, stone-faced snarkiness is just about the only thing that gets me through the work day. Thank you, Dr. lol

I’d love to hear your opinion on Jill Duggar Dillard. She’s split away from the family despite being one of the most obedient early on.

First sponsored video of Dr.Grande i caught. So exciting 😊😊😊 so glad for all the succes you deserve!

Why is your voice SO soothing even when you’re talking about such upsetting things? It’s like a superpower

In another interview, the Dugger parents mentioned that while discussing Josh's teen offences with church members, they found that this pattern of in-family sexual abuse is not uncommon within their community.

I think the doc *really* hit the nail on the head when he talked about these parents separating the offender from the offense. These are people who devoutly categorize everything in terms of "sin" vs. "virtue." So it's likely incredibly easy for them to simply "hate the sin and love the sinner," without ever acknowledging that the sin and the sinner are inextricably intertwined. This gives them the ability to see their son as a wonderful, godly, moral person who was somehow contaminated by "sin," but that once he's born again (again!) the sin will magically disappear, leaving only a perfectly godly, moral person. They seem to think that forgiving him will also magically erase the trauma suffered by the victims, and that a failure to forgive him is, in their minds, a sin almost comparable to the abuse they endured. But that's not how it works, unfortunately. And so, tragically, multiple young girls had to pay for this lack of insight and parenting skills with the unspeakably traumatic loss of their innocence at the hands of a predatory family member, who by all rights should have been one of the people they could trust most. I can only hope that now, finally, the law will step in and prevent him from being around potential victims ever again. Because it seems quite clear that this family cannot be counted on, ever, to protect their most vulnerable and innocent children from abuse, nor can they be counted on to ever actually take workable steps to protect those potential victims.

Josh was their ( the Duggers) first child and a boy! (Very important for them) ..He was parented by Jim Bob and Michelle exclusively because there were no girls to do mom and dads work. The parents probably bonded with Josh way more than the last dozen or more children.

There should be no statute of limitations on punishing child abusers. These people destroy lives, the same as murderers.

I have a video suggestion for another TLC family, the Browns from Sister Wives. So much to unpack. Why someone stays in an unhappy marriage (Meri), dealing with jealousy (Christine), being the favorite (Robin), strong independent woman syndrome (Janelle) pros/cons of having your own harem (Cody). Plus how living their lives in the spotlight can affect kids. Issues around religious discrimination.

Anna allows him around those kids knowing he is a predator. That whole family puts those kids in danger n have for years. They are so quick to judge others for predatory behavior then enable him to do it to his own family.

Always a delight and a good laugh listening to you, Dr. G!

So excited to hear this Dr. Grande. Been waiting. Thank you.

It's tragic that this happens in many religious communities, basically gets covered up because they often don't believe in any 'treatment' except through their religious teachings. Some don't believe in taking any meds for mental health either, which could be extremely damaging, especially if someone has schizophrenia etc. 😭😢

The next series will be about prison life“ Josh Duggar and his 19 years and counting”.

I blame the parents. They knew about his actions at an early age and didn't get him the proper help. They gave him the "pray it all away" help from a Christian counselor who had no experience in the psychological field. Now he's a grown adult and it's too fuckin late.

I’m convinced that having that many children is cruel. Not a single one of them can possibly have gotten the individual parental love, support, time or focus that they needed.

Joseph Hutchens very stern talk to Josh Duggar: "Hers what you do to not get caught with CP..."

thank you for covering this. That family's seriously screwed up.

Can I just say. I fricking LOVE the hilarious sarcasm that you slide into each point, you are the best content creator on RU-vid!@

What concerns me with the Duggar parents, is one child committed the offences (by his, theirs and the victims’ own admissions) and four of their children were the victims, and they chose to protect the one over the four. It’s disgusting.

You’re right that the TLC was kind of the original family RU-vid channel. Between “Toddlers and Tiarras” and “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo,” I’ve never really understood where the “learning” comes in Maybe you should do a video on poverty tourism or the psychology of watching dysfunctional families on television

People that sexually abuse & watch child pornography cannot be rehabilitated. If they could we would not be here today. I cannot imagine how devastating this would be to the family.

i wish it was mandatory that pedophiles have to have a GPS computer chip, and castration, but castration is not always 100% effective. It think alot of people are naive about how common pedophilia is. We need to educate our children more about the sexual abuse grooming process etc..

Very educational this session. Thankyou Doc. Thought provoking.

I am so happy that you did this video! This family has always been an unusual interest of mine. More often than not the ones that proclaim such morality are the most Insidious.

I do not understand why his wife didn’t leave him immediately when he was charged the first time. Instead she chose to to stay with him and continued to bring children into this environment. This is not godly. It’s disgusting. He should have been dealt with along time ago.

Oh look at me, I love watching Dr Grande. As always your insights are interesting and your dry comments delightful. Thank you!

You're the best Dr Todd. Keep up the good work and insightful analyses!