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The sixth month of every year traditionally gives rise to many wedding celebrations.
For example, patriarch Jim Bob and his wife Michelle shunned contraception and home-schooled their 19 children.
Their daughters wore unrevealing, unfashionable clothes that covered most of their bodies.
The Arkansas couple also avoided exposing their children to non-Christian influences, focusing instead on scripture and wholesome pleasures.
Hiking trips, zoo visits, and picnics were featured in episodes of their TV show.
How heartbreaking, then, when this clean-living family experienced the scandal of eldest sonJosh Duggar’s prison sentence.
So, how then did the Duggar matriarch and patriarch first cross paths?
There’s meaning, too, in howJim Bob and Michelle Duggarmet.
In the docuseries' first episode, Jill describes her parents' original encounter.
“My parents, they met when my dad was out on church visitation with a friend of his.
My dad invited her to his junior-senior banquet .
somewhere in there, sometime after that got married.
Pretty young actually, she was 17, he was 19.”
Youth and faith, then, were central aspects of their union.
Years later,NBCwould report allegations that IBLP’s founder had abused young women.
