“I think Friday has probably been my hardest day, but that’s crazy to say because Wednesday was crazy hard,” Kendra tells Joseph during a collect phone call from the Washington County Detention Facility on March 24.<\/p>\n
Friday was the day of Kendra’s arrest and Wednesday was the day of her husband Joseph’s arrest.<\/p>\n
She then adds: “But it’s just like, when you then take my babies from me, they were who I was just going to pour my life into.”<\/p>\n
Joseph interjects that the children are Kendra’s “purpose right now.”<\/p>\n
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Kendra Duggar
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Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage? Sign up for\u00a0PEOPLE’s free True Crime newsletter<\/a>\u00a0for breaking crime news, ongoing trial coverage and details of intriguing unsolved cases.<\/p>\n Kendra also mentioned not having them on a March 22 call when Joseph asked her how their children were doing amid their parents’ legal battles.<\/p>\n “From what I hear they are doing good,” Kendra tells him.<\/p>\n Kendra was with her children on March 20 after her release from jail and could be heard talking to them while on the phone with Joseph that evening.<\/p>\n Related: Inside the Duggars\u2019 New Scandal: Shocking Arrests, Alleged Abuse Offscreen and Questions About \u2018What Else Don\u2019t We Know\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Related: Joseph Duggar Released from Custody on $600,000 Bond and Ordered to Have No Unsupervised Contact with Minors, Including His 4 Children<\/a><\/p>\n In another call, Kendra makes it clear to Joseph that her priority is their children.<\/p>\n “I’m fighting for the kids and they’re my number one priority right now,” Kendra tells Joseph.<\/p>\n He responds that he is “100% behind” his wife and says she “should be fighting for them the most.”<\/p>\n Kendra then tells Joseph: “I just want you to know, through all of this, whatever happens, that’s who’s coming first,” adding that “then we’ll just see where the rest of it leads us and try to put the pieces together.”<\/p>\n Before hanging up, she tells Joseph that his four children love him too.<\/p>\n A spokesperson for the Arkansas Dept. of Human Services declined to comment when asked about the status of the Duggars’ custody case.<\/p>\n Joseph and Kendra Duggar Kendra was booked into an Arkansas jail on March 20 after she and Joseph were charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a minor in the second degree and four counts of false imprisonment in the second degree<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Joseph](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/187820a74d925d5186c00d3142b18118.jpeg\"\/)
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Credit: Washington County Sheriff’s Office (2)<\/p>\n