Breathe Fire! (A post about Anna Duggar)

[Bettie]

42. Exactly, she's been taught since birth

that her only value is as a wife and mother, completely subservient to her husband.

That anything her husband does (porn, infidelity, child molestation) is brought on by her failure to satisfy him in some way. Of course she blames herself, it is all she has ever known.

I hope she can get herself and her children out of there, but I have little hope that it will happen. More likely, she'll stay there and silently rage as he abuses her children, because she has been taught that it his right to do whatever he pleases with her and her children.

In the back of her mind, she probably figures if she's godly enough, good enough, he'll stop being what he is and become what he has pretended to be in public. But, he's been taught that whatever he does is OK, because he's the man and it isn't his fault, it is her fault for not satisfying his every urge.

Vicious cycle. And people keep telling me that religion is a net good to society.