Duggar Family

Jim Bob Duggar^[12] and his wife Michelle,^[13] who was named Young Mother of the Year in Arkansas in 2004,^[14][15] are conservative Baptists^[16] who endorse the Quiverfull movement and the teachings of Bill Gothard. Mr. Duggar is a former state legislator who served in the Arkansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2002. He is now a real estate agent.^[17][18]

Jim Bob Duggar and his wife report that their children are blessings from God, since his wife miscarried while on birth control and was able to conceive many more times once she stopped taking birth control.^[19]

The Duggars live debt-free,^[20][21] which Mr. Duggar has said is “the fruit of Jim Sammons' Financial Freedom Seminar” he attended years ago. (Sammons is the Chairman of IBLP's Advisory Board – IBLP is the umbrella organization for Gothard's ministries – and previously served on IBLP's Board of Directors, and is current president of IBLP's Advanced Training Institute International, which promotes Gothard's homeschooling materials. IBLP does not offer any financial program through its ministry other than Sammons', though Sammons offers his materials through entities other than IBLP.)

The Duggars raise their children using the buddy system, in which an older sibling assists the younger sibling in daily tasks. The older buddy "will get the younger ones' meals."^[22] According to Mrs. Duggar, "They help them with their little phonics lessons and games during the day and help them practice their music lessons. They will play with them or help them pick out the color of their outfit that they want to wear that day, and just all of those types of things."^[23]

Source: Wikipedia