This was my obligation to my parents for keeping me alive and fed.
There, I found other home-schooled kids who, like me, were blogging about their lives.
I was 19, and finally living away from family and attending college.
Id lived that life, and Id escaped it.
I knew what those girls were going through.
I knew how tired they were.
Maybe that made their labor easier to swallow.
Blogging was my way out of fundamentalism.
The recent release ofShiny Happy Peopleon Amazon Prime has made that clear.
All proceeds went straight to her dad, Jim Bob Duggar.
No check, no cash, no nothing, she says in the docuseries.
For seven-and-a-half years of my adult life, I was never paid.
Neither TLC nor Jim Bob Duggar replied to Bustles requests for comment on the claims made in this story.
They never reached the Duggars level of success, even on their home turf, social media.
Its even messier when trying to calculate what specific mommy bloggers made.
Its especially easy when posting from home.
As social media platforms age into their teens, children of parenting influencers are also coming of age.
And some are banding together.
(Full disclosure: Im on CRHEs board and joined the organization a few years after it began.)
This is considered a form of human trafficking.
Some of these former children are returning to social media but this time, on their terms.
(Through a representative, Ray denied Ziebert’s claims.
He also noted that his research has been published in peer-reviewed texts across the span of 35 years.)
he saidin an Instagram post.
How does the environment of prying eyes, both lens and audience, affect self-perception?
How are material amenities weighed against the subjective psychological affects [sic]?
Has anyone defined these lines?
Should weneedto study it?
(At the time, TLCrespondedthat they were supportive of Jacob and investigating the allegations.)
And some children stillhave not told their stories yet.
Audiences are becoming savvy to this issue, which is fortunate for some of these kids.
Some fans have reported abuse,initiating interventions that have rescued kidsfrom increasingly dangerous household dynamics.
