Counting the Cost by Jill Duggar

Title: Counting the Cost
Author: Jill Duggar
Genre: Memoir

This was an interesting recounting of a specific, rather unique, story of a child growing up - but what I found fascinating is the universality that was captured in this story.

Jill Duggar spent many of her teenage years on her family's reality television show. Her parents garnered the public interest with their very large family (currently 19 kids) and saw their fame as a chance to spread their own views on raising children and families under rather more strict conservative Christian ideals than are commonly followed in America. It was a chance for the public to see something a little unusual, but it also exposed their family to a world full of ideas and ideals that the children - especially the girls - had been very sheltered from.

This tells the story of which of those ideals Jill eventually began questioning as she grew up and moved out, forming a family of her own. While few of us can relate to having our lives splashed across tabloids and told through headlines, there is a commonality to the idea of having to begin looking at - and re-evaluating - those rules that we just accepted, for years, because that was what our parents said was true.

- Katrina

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