Shiny Happy Duggars Release Date: Plot, Trailer and More Update!

The Duggars were a household name at the end of the 2000s and the beginning of the 2010s, so it’s unlikely that you managed to escape hearing about them. The family was the focus of the reality TV series “19 Kids and Counting,” which followed the daily lives of the massive family for seven years starting in 2008. The Duggars were devoted Christians who refused to use birth control and homeschooled all of their kids.

Despite giving off the impression that they were a large happy family, it discovered that what was going on may have been considerably more sinister than it first appeared. When Josh, the family’s eldest son, admitted to the molestation of five girls and the show was canceled, the first fissures in the Duggars’ façade started to show.

Josh was detained in 2021 and charged with receiving and possessing child pornography, though he was never charged. A recent documentary claims that “19 Kids and Counting” is being run by even more sinister forces. The documentary “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets” on Amazon Prime promises to reveal the “radical organization” known as the Institute in Basic Life Principles, which is said to have been the family’s primary source of wealth.

The official synopsis of the documentary states, “As details of the family and their scandals unfold, we realize they’re part of an insidious, much-larger threat already in motion, with democracy itself in peril.” The following information is about “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.”

The storyline of “Shiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets.”

The documentary “Happy Shiny People: Duggar Family Secrets” promises to go into detail on the partnership between the Duggar family and the Institute in Basic Life Principles (IBLP). There will be interviews with Jill Dillard, previously Jill Duggar, who claims her family was “part of IBLP as early as I can remember” and says, “There’s a story that’s gonna be told, and I would rather be the one telling it.”

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The IBLP is described as “like the epitome of evil” by one woman in the trailer, who also says it “breaks my heart to think about the girls.” A second man asserts that the group “raises little predators.” Another person adds, “This is much bigger than the Duggars,” before another suggests that the IBLP had political ambitions. Another insider claims, “They were playing the long game,” adding, “You offer these kids political participation training. You send them as interns from there to the White House and Congress.

What is the Institute in Basic Life Principles?

Bill Gothard established the IBLP, a Christian organization, in 1961. According to its website, the group offers “clear institution and training on how to succeed by following God’s principles found in Scripture.” According to The New Republic, the group’s more radical policies include not allowing women to be financially independent or to reject their husbands’ emotions.

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It also advocates homeschooling, nuclear families, and female subordination. The group has been referred to as a cult by former members and has also been the subject of multiple sex scandals. According to Chicago Magazine, Gothard resigned from his leadership position in 2014 after being charged with sexual harassment and neglecting to investigate accusations of sexual assault from members of his group.