Kendra Duggar: The Woman Who Wasn't Born Into This System
About this episode
The episode explores Kendra Duggar's unique position within the Duggar family and the impact of coercive systems on women from different backgrounds.
Every other woman in the Duggar orbit grew up inside the machine. Raised in IBLP. Taught that male authority was absolute. Told that female submission was God's design and that leaving was, in their doctrine's own words, witchcraft. Kendra Caldwell was not one of them. She is the daughter of a Baptist pastor in Arkansas. She married Joseph Duggar at nineteen. And according to reporting, in the months before his arrest, Joseph allegedly drove a wedge between Kendra and the family she came from. Retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke sits down with Amy Duggar King — Jim Bob's niece, the one who left, who wrote Holy Disruptor, and who paid for her departure with retaliation and exile — to examine what coercive systems do to women who are brought in from the outside versus women who were raised inside from birth. What makes Kendra's position different from every Duggar woman before her? What does it mean that her family of origin is still intact, still separate from the Duggars, and still — based on a family photo posted without Kendra and Joseph — leaving the door open? Amy delivers a direct message to Kendra about what the first step out looks like and what happens when…
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