Duggar Kids — Who Is Being Held Captive?

Here's an interesting post on Jill Stanek's blog. A journalist from a Christian radio station came to meet the Duggar family. Obviously, he'd heard about them before, including the much often repeated claim that their 19 homeschooled kids are "captives in their own home". And indeed, he didn't see posters of vampires and celebrities in their room. However, he figured out that while not familiar with the so called "popular culture", the Duggar children are still much better off than their peers:

While, admittedly, I admire the Duggars for much of what they do, I didn’t expect what I saw in these 3 girls. The world has yet to beat them into submission. They don’t watch the Disney Channel, so they’ve yet to learn that adults are buffoons and parents are embarrassing. They don’t listen to the local rock station, so they’ve yet do discover life is supposed to be one promiscuous event followed by another. They don’t attend public school, so they’ve yet to learn teenage girls are required to be filled with angst and riddled with insecurities.

As we spoke to the 3 of them, one word kept jumping out at me: Freedom. These girls were experiencing freedom teenagers rarely taste. Completely free to be themselves. The exact opposite of the words so often used by media folk to describe the 19 kids.

While many times teenagers can’t wait to get away from adults, these 3 were anxious to engage in conversation. And they were delightful. All of the Duggars were.

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So, who is being held captive? The Duggar children - to their "Christian fundamentalist" parents (as many critics label them,) or the vast majority of other teenagers - to all the telescreen trash, otherwise known as "popular culture"?