This article includes mentions of child sexual abuse.
Dubbed “Shiny Happy People,” the Duggars have long boasted about Christian family values.
They famously have 19 kids thanks to openly forgoing birth control.
Since they came on the scene,the Duggar family has faced plenty of controversies.
But that just scratches the surface of what sadnesses have impacted the famed TLC tribe.
Here are the tragic details about the Duggar family.
Josie Duggar has had some serious health issues
Josie Duggar has struggled with her health since birth.
Josie had more health issues when she was five.
On an episode of “19 Kids and Counting,” audiences saw Josie suffer a seizure.
“[James Duggar] asked [Josie] a question, and she didn’t really respond.
The Duggars have become much more private in recent years, but Josie seems to be doing well today.
We’ve already forgiven Josh.
We’ve already moved on,” as reported byCBS News.
In 2021, a jury found Josh guilty of possessing child pornography.
Upon the conviction and sentencing, multiple members of Josh’s family publicly responded to the news.
Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar stated that they would continue praying for and loving their son.
Josh’s sister, Jinger Vuolo (nee Duggar), had some particularly poignant words.
We are grateful for justice.
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In 2015, TLC announced that it would no longer film episodes of the popular series.
At the time, the Duggars were earning tens of thousands of dollars per episode for the series.
The Duggar drought didn’t last too long on TLC, though.
Unfortunately, making some of those decisions has changed Jill’s relationship with the rest of her clan.
“It didn’t go over very well with anyone.
By that point we’d had enough.
However,Jill has been plenty busy since leaving “19 Kids and Counting.
Jill Dillard delivered a stillborn child
The Duggar family, quite obviously, have many children.
Days after Jill shared the news of her stillbirth, she and Derick hosted a funeral.
Many of Jill’s family members were in attendance, including her parents.
Since the miscarriage, Jill and Derick have continued to honor their daughter’s memory.
The family covered the grave site in flowers, some of which they handpicked from their home garden.
Lester, who was 75 years old, died of a heart attack.
He was pronounced dead at the scene.
After Lester died, police went to Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s home to further investigate the death.
As one source toldThe Sun, “Tommy removed himself from the family decades ago.
Nobody kept in touch with him at all.
All the family knows is that he was gay and was married.
He separated himself from the family when the oldest Duggar children were young.”
In the summer of 2019, the Duggar family shared the sad news of Mary’s passing on theirFacebookpage.
Multiple Duggar children took to social media to honor their grandmother in the wake of her death.
Jill Dillard (nee Duggar) said onInstagram.
“It hurts to look back at these pictures and remember the pain and heartbreak.”
Forsyth and her husband now have three children, two boys and a girl.
“We went in and they tried to check for a heartbeat, but they couldn’t find one.
“At that moment I was just in complete shock.
I didn’t have words.
I just immediately started crying,” Seewald said of learning she had miscarried.
They don’t allow the women in their family to wear pants.
They notoriously encouraged their children to abstain from most physical contact, including kissing, until marriage.
Many of the Duggars don’t use birth control or drink alcohol.
One member of the Duggar family, however, patently disagrees.
“I really do think that IBLP is a form of a cult.
