{"id":2424075,"date":"2026-05-20T00:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2424075"},"modified":"2026-05-20T00:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T00:42:10","slug":"kendra-duggar-cut-off-parents-after-being-forced-out-of-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/kendra-duggar-cut-off-parents-after-being-forced-out-of-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendra Duggar &#8216;Cut Off&#8217; Parents After Being Forced Out of Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/kendra-duggar\/\"><strong>Kendra Duggar<\/strong><\/a> is putting some distance between herself and her parents amid her and husband <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrities\/joseph-duggar\/\"><strong>Joseph Duggar<\/strong><\/a>\u2019s ongoing legal issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKendra is not communicating with her family. The Caldwells have left the home they were living in and all of their belongings are in storage,\u201d a source exclusively tells <em>Us Weekly<\/em>. \u201cThey are still working out what their next steps will be. It has been an extremely stressful time especially given the circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kendra is the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kendra-duggars-parents-siblings-meet-the-caldwell-family\/\">eldest daughter<\/a> of <strong>Paul<\/strong> and <strong>Christina Caldwell<\/strong>. She has eight siblings: Lauren, Micah, Nathan, Timothy, Olivia, Jesiah, Isaiah and Moriah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRelocating is always difficult, especially with a large family and the stress they are under,\u201d the source explains. \u201cThey are considering a move out of state. Paul is looking for work to support the family because he had to leave his job.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__thumbnail related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kendra-duggars-family-breaks-silence-on-josephs-arrest\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kendra-duggars-family-breaks-silence-on-josephs-arrest\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Kendra Duggar\u2019s Family Breaks Silence on Joseph Duggar\u2019s Arrest<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKendra Duggar\u2019s immediate family is speaking out after Joseph Duggar was arrested amid accusations of sexual abuse. \u201cOur family is both troubled and heartbroken over the alleged actions committed by our son-in-law,\u201d the Caldwell family wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, April 15. \u201cWe are devastated for the young girl, a child who was courageous in [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Last month, Paul revealed that he and his <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kendra-duggars-dad-says-they-lost-their-home-and-job\/\">family had lost<\/a> their most recent housing situation and employment after <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/joseph-duggar-arrested-for-child-molestation-what-to-know\/\">Joseph\u2019s arrest<\/a>. The<em> Counting On<\/em> alum was charged with lewd and lascivious behavior involving molestation of a victim less than 12 years old and lewd and lascivious behavior conducted by a person 18 years or older in March. Joseph has since pleaded not guilty to the charges. He was released from jail in late March after posting $600,000 bail.<\/p>\n<p>The family\u2019s top \u201cpriority right now is to support\u201d Joseph\u2019s alleged victim, per the insider.<\/p>\n<p>The source adds that the Caldwells \u201cwant to distance themselves from the Duggars as much as possible, but it hurts them to be cut off by Kendra.\u201d Before moving out of their home, \u201cthe utilities were cut off and the family felt unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than anything they want to feel safe and start over and to enter counseling to heal,\u201d the insider tells Us.<\/p>\n<p><em>Us<\/em> has reached out to the Caldwells and Duggars\u2019 respective spokespersons for comment.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img 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height=\"225\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"article__title-link related-ab-test\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/duggars-are-retaliating-against-caldwell-family-friend-says\/\" target=\"\" data-source=\"01\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Duggars Are Retaliating Against Caldwell Family for Joseph&#8217;s Arrest, Friend Says<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tChristian influencer Amy Paul has accused the Duggars of retaliating against Kendra Duggar\u2019s family, the Caldwells, in the wake of her husband Joseph Duggar\u2019s child molestation arrest. Paul made a litany of allegations against Joseph and his family via Instagram on Monday, April 13, including suggesting that the Caldwells were being forced out of their [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to Joseph\u2019s molestation case, he and Kendra were both charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor and four counts of false imprisonment. Kendra was arrested and posted bail the same day. The couple\u2019s endangerment case is unrelated to the molestation allegations.<\/p>\n<p>Amid Kendra and Joseph\u2019s legal woes, Kendra\u2019s father <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/kendra-duggars-parents-launchgofundme-for-moving-expenses\/\">created a GoFundMe<\/a> page to raise money for \u201cdisplacement fees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy family is facing a difficult and urgent situation. We are in need to cover displacement expenses,\u201d Paul wrote in the fundraiser\u2019s initial message. \u201cWe will not be using these funds for [our] legal expenses.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.usmagazine.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Duggar is putting some distance between herself and her parents amid her and husband Joseph Duggar\u2019s ongoing legal issues. \u201cKendra is not communicating with her family. The Caldwells have left the home they were living in and all of their belongings are in storage,\u201d a source exclusively tells Us Weekly. \u201cThey are still working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2405714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[22367,24003,25404],"class_list":["post-2424075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-celebrity","tag-celebrity-news","tag-exclusive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Kendra-Duggars-Family-Shares-New-Fundraiser-After-GoFundMe.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424076,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424075\/revisions\/2424076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2405714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}