Michelle Duggar believes the Internet and the smartphones that proliferate it are basically evil and looking to steal your soul at their earliest convenience.
This opinion isn't particularly surprising, nor is it the most controversial view held by the 19 Kids and Counting matriarch. But still, let her elaborate ...
Michelle and her husband, Jim Bob Duggar, and their adult kids are far from technological dinosaurs. They blog and are very active on social media.
Josh, Jill and Jessa Duggar and their spouses are allowed to post on Instagram, and they do so frequently and with no restrictions from mom and dad.
The unmarried ones are a different story, however.
Their girls might even have cell phones, but they limit their sons' Internet use in particular because there are too many "temptations" online these days.
"Young men would have more of a struggle seeing bad stuff," Michelle revealed in an interview with Covenant Eyes, and there's no denying that's true.
Even if you're not talking full-on porn or nudity, images of Kylie Jenner's bikini body are everywhere these days, just yearning to be drooled over.
Seriously, that girl is simply relentless.
So how does the Duggar family, which doesn't even allow kids on the beach or wear clothes that are at all revealing for similar reasons, handle this?
"What we've done with the smartphones," Michelle says, is "we've actually locked out Safari and any Internet search at all, and then we've just had basic apps."
The Duggar parents often accompany their kids on dates in order to maintain "accountability" and "keep things from going in the wrong direction," per Jim Bob. The girls are fine with this, as being alone with men puts them in grave "moral danger." When the parents aren't available, their older siblings will often tag along, making every date a group date and a family affair.
Even in the kids' late teens and early 20s, mom and dad are creeping on their text messages. When Ben Seewald jokingly wrote to fiancee Jessa, "Give me a ring," Jim Bob actually jumped in on the group text, writing "No ring yet." With a smiley face emoticon. Seriously, he did that. Jim Bob needs his own Instagram so he can start posting screen shots of this stuff.
This moment you see here between Jill Duggar and Derick Dillard would not have been permitted until the couple was married. Side hugs are the preferred method of PDA in order to prevent any further temptation or hanky panky, as has been well documented on 19 Kids and Counting. The Duggars love their side hugs so hard. Any touching beyond that? Save it for your wedding night.
This is probably an obvious one if you know anything about the Duggars. The family does not smoke or drink. They do, however, enjoy the occasional sugary dessert or getting high on life and love.
Safe to say the Duggars are in the minority, having not read Fifty Shades of Grey (the movie adaptation of which they won't be seeing either, we're guessing). The Bible warns not to "think about gratifying the pleasure of the flesh," so instead the family studies Christian text and not E.L. James' erotic fiction. The Duggars' option is probably better-written.
Avert your eyes, Michelle Duggar! The family matriarch feels that dancing encourages "sensual" feelings, while Jessa Duggar has said that she feels modern music promotes "sex, drugs, all that type of stuff." Instead, the family chooses to play gospel music together.
Yes, seriously. There is Duggar-approved swimwear (it's conservative and not very revealing, spoiler alert) but when it comes to the beach, that's not happening. At all. Blame the general public. "It's just too hard for the guys to try and keep their eyes averted," Michelle explains. If we happened upon Kaley Cuoco doing beach yoga, we might see her point. But we also wouldn't complain.
Even if you took out the boozy parties and sexy nurses and cats looking to get frisky, Halloween would still be a no-go for the Duggars. According to the parents, magic and witches are "part of a demonic realm God wants us to stay away from," and this holiday qualifies. To each their own.
We don't actually know if there's a definitive rule against the use of birth control in the Duggar household, but it's clearly not something the family is thinking about, or using, ever. Just saying. Once those vows are exchanged, fornication and procreation tend to happen early and often, ensuring that the great state of Arkansas will never have a population shortage of really nice, quirky, family-first, side-hug loving human beings.
"We have emails and just the basic things on the phones for the guys," however, "even on the maps and things there are some ways to see some bad things.
That, she laments, has been "a struggle."
Somewhere, Kylie Jenner is thinking up a way to send you push notifications of where her bikini body has recently been seen when you fire up Google Maps.
All kidding aside, the Duggars unabashedly stand for what they feel is right, and seem to raise a group of young people who share in their steadfast beliefs.
This includes those Duggar family dating rules that border on the insane to most people, but once a couple is married, the reins are loosened considerably.
If you watch 19 Kids and Counting online, you recall that Jim Bob and Michelle recently explained to daughter Jessa what a woman wants and what a man wants.
"Both of you'll like the physical relationship, but [for] the guy [it] will be kind of like the main focus," patriarch Jim Bob told her and then-fiance Ben Seewald.
"But for a woman, communicating is the most important thing, and so taking time each day to communicate, that will just mean the world to her."
Your hubby comes home after a hard day's work, you get the baby to bed, and he is going to be looking forward to that time with you. Anyone can fix him lunch, but only one person can meet that physical need of love, and you always need to be available when he calls. - Michelle
A couple of weeks after we went to the Holocaust Museum, it dawned on us that there is a holocaust taking place right here in America!...More than 56 million lives have been destroyed in our country! That is over 4,000 babies being killed and 4,000 women being wounded each day. - Michelle
We still love everyone as Christ commands, we still have compassion, we still have those kinds of feelings, but we have our convictions. We have our beliefs. If you really love somebody, you’re going to tell the truth. The Bible’s not neutral about lifestyles. The Bible blesses and approves of some and not others. - Josh
You may not wanna push the wedding date out too far, as those natural God-given desires with too much time between engagement and marriage can make it harder to remain pure - Jill
You cannot get un-pregnant. If you are pregnant, take responsibility and take care of yourself and your baby and God will take care of you. - Jill, Jana and Jessa
Because of the violence of abortion, over 16 million black people are history. Human beings should be remembered, not dismembered. - Anna, on Black History Month
It would allow men - yes, I said men - to use women's and girls' restrooms, locker rooms, showers, sleeping areas and other areas that are designated for females only. - Michelle
We do not dress modestly because we are ashamed of the body God has given us; quite the contrary. We realize that our body is a special gift from God and that He intends for it to be shared only with our future husband... We avoid low-cut, cleavage-showing, gaping, or bare-shouldered tops; and when needed, we wear an undershirt. We try to make it a habit to always cover the top of our shirt with our hand when we bend over. We don't want to play the peekaboo game with our neckline. - Jana, Jessa, Jill and Jinger
That's a signal to the boys, and even to Dad, that they should nonchalantly drop their eyes and look down at their shoes as we walk past her... It's meant to help keep the guys' eyes from seeing things they shouldn't be seeing. By using the single-word signal, the warning can be given quietly and discreetly. - Jana, Jessa, Jill and Jinger, on their code word ("Nike") to the males in their family when they encounter women who aren't subscribing to a similar dress code
I walked through the Holocaust Museum again today... very sobering. Millions of innocents denied the most basic and fundamental of all rights: their right to life... We must be a voice for those who cannot speak up for themselves. Because EVERY LIFE IS PRECIOUS. - Jessa
I know a lot of Catholics who are great people. What I DO have a problem with is the teaching that man can merit God's favor through his own works or the works of other fallen men ... Where [Catholics] depart from Scripture, I will in no way support, but will call them out because I love them and desire that they be turned from their deadly errors. - Ben Seewald
After deleting photos of gay people kissing on Facebook, Michelle and Jim Bob shared this quote from Rick Warren: Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. Second is that to love someone means that you must agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.
The idea of overpopulation is not accurate because, really, the entire population of the world, if they were stretched shoulder to shoulder, could fit within the city limits of Jacksonville. - Michelle
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