Duggar Parents Give Interview To Megyn Kelly

If he was "just gay" he would have wanted to 'poke' his baby brothers instead of his sisters, so the same principal applies. Deviant is deviant, be it gay or straight.

ETA:  Abusing children is deviant behavior.  It has nothing to do with sexual orientation.  

Except those that abuse young boys are normally not gay.

It really doesn't matter how the interview turns out. The damage is done. Their secret is out. Josh will forever be known as the teenage molester and his parents as the ones who covered it up. The family image is shot to hell and their TV show sponsors are gone.

I've never watched anything "Duggar" in my life and never even opened a Duggar thread until they became the news. So any info I get is from here because they havent been in any of the news I've been watching lately.

What you said made sense but then I was watching the news and a quote from Josh was put up. The end of it was "...and my parents arranged for me and those affected by my actions to receive counseling." So for those wondering, the victims did receive something beyond just doing chores to take their mind off of it, as was suggested somewhere upthread. They did receive and are possibly still receiving some sort of counseling. Maybe they'll get into more detail on that in the Kelly interview. 

Yes, that's what they SAY. But the so called "counseling" that Josh got was doing hard labor at a friend's house. I highly doubt the girls received any sort of ACTUAL psychological counseling. Especially since the kind of religious philosophy they follow basically blames the victims for tempting their abuser.

I never really watched the show I couldn't stand they way the parents talked and they way they talked to their kids. The only show I even watch on TLC is the Little Couple.
The only thing that really bothers me about this is something came up on Megyns show yesterday and how the information got how and how the records should have been sealed. As They were Minors. The victims and The accuser. Josh Duggar. Something she mentioned she would bring up. Why is this even being talked about if they were under age and the information was leaked? I have not decided if I will watch the interview. I don't know enough about the show but i do watch Megyn she's not soft.

I have a hard time understanding why you would even ask this question.

Because what they did was heinous and is a national social problem.  

I am all for ongoing national discussions about 1) the prevalence of incest, 2) about what typically happens when incest is revealed in families in terms of not doing much for the victims, with the concern being much more on keeping the issue silent, and 3) what are appropriate responses when incest is discovered in the family.

But, given your whole post, I'll change my prediction to the majority of the focus of Kelly's interview being on how it is a liberal conspiracy that this all came to light and how Jim Bob, Michelle, and Josh are the REAL victims.  

If the interviews conducted with the police didn't happen until 2006, Josh wouldn't have been a minor any more, even if the incidents started when he was a minor. 

There is also a legal issue with mandated reporters in Arkansas being told of the abuse and not reporting to Child Services.  About a police officer being told in 2003 and all he did was give Josh a stern talking to. About no follow up with Human Services by the police at that time.

Probably one of the bigger tip offs as to how this is public is that Oprah Winfrey is the first person to file a report in 2006 when she was tipped off to the abuse before the Duggars were going to be on her show. Josh was an adult then. Only after Oprah's report did the police turn the case over to Human Services.

Enough people knew about the abuse to tip off Oprah. Oprah filed a report. I'm willing to guess a number of Oprah's staff then knew about it. 

Given that, I'm surprised it took this long to come to the public eye.

eta: if you are a mandated reporter in the state of Arkansas and fail to report child abuse, it is a misdemeanor and subject to civil prosecution too.

The police report wasn't "leaked." It was released legally to the media under the Freedom of Information Act.

Trying to shut down discussion of the topic by claiming it was minors who were involved and therefore none of our business seems desperate to me.

to be clear, the first incident occurred when he was 14 (July 2002), the second when he had just turned, or was about to turn 15 (March 2003).  The two incidents (that we know about) were 9 months apart.  

Of course I don't agree with molesting children.  You do?  Are you seriously arguing that molesting children is not a perversion?