Amy Duggar King still enjoys a close relationship with some of her cousins. She often gets together with Jill Duggar Dillard, who is also estranged from patriarch Jim Bob and has spoken out against the Institute in Basic Life Principles. But she worries for other family members, particularly the youngest Duggar daughters. Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn, and Josie are still teens — Johannah just graduated from her homeschooling program — and so continue to be raised in the ministry.
King tells the Daily Mail she hopes her cousins have a "happy life," but at the same time, she calls their future a "question mark" because they're still being raised under the toxic structure of the IBLP. The ministry teaches that women are the "weaker vessel" and must submit to the authority of their fathers and husbands. Unless they decide to defy Jim Bob even more radically than Dillard did, it's probable the Duggar girls will follow their expected path of early marriage and motherhood. "I just hope someday they can truly know Jesus and know freedom the way that we know freedom, and not be tied down to all these man-made rules," King says.
She isn't as optimistic about her estranged sister-in-law, however. King recently had an icy encounter with Josh Duggar's wife, Anna, in which Anna refused to even talk to her. In a TikTok post she made about the incident, King said, "She made it clear she does not want our help."
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