![]() Longtime homesteaders are questioning the family’s know-how. They now live on the slab where the home once stood, hauling in water for cooking, bathing and dishes and using a generator to power their small appliances and a laptop, according to their blog.īut as details of the complaint emerged, what started out as a clear case of government overreach against rural Kentucky’s answer to the Duggars has become a heated debate between homeschool advocates, neighbors, and homesteaders over just how free a family can live before it becomes child abuse. That prefab home was bought on credit but returned sometime later in the year. Blog posts from 2012 and before show the family in a modest multilevel home, and even in 2013, when the Nauglers moved to their current parcel of land, they lived in an actual cabin-made up of luxuries like boards of equal sizes, and nails, and a roof. ![]() The family didn’t always live such a simple life. They contribute to the success of the family crops and livestock, all while learning about the amazing beauty of life.” Their ten children are homeschooled on the homestead. They are industrious people trying to teach their children how to live right. “They live a very simple life,” writes their advocate and friend Pace Ellsworth, on a fundraising site that has already brought in almost $50,000 for the Nauglers in the last week. The removal of 10 children from parents who may not fit the norm initially sounded alarm bells for proponents of free-range parenting, and rallied unschoolers, freebirthers, and off-the-grid devotees to the family’s cause. The kids were neither enrolled in school nor registered as homeschoolers with the school board. The two makeshift tents that the family called home were surrounded by “numerous piles of garbage, broken glass and nails,” which were scattered about the property. Nicole Naugler writes that as of Monday, the children were split into four different homes.Īccording to the complaint, which the Nauglers posted on Facebook, the only shed on the Naugler’s property was reserved for the animals. ![]() Last week-after receiving a tip that the brood was living in squalor, without running water or access to a septic system, and that Joe had threatened a neighbor with a gun (for which he’s plead not guilty)-officers removed all 10 children from their parents’ care and arrested Nicole for disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. There’s just one problem: The state’s Child Protective Services and the local sheriff say the conditions aren’t fit for anyone. Living a simple, back to basics life.” Living off the land in a 280-square-foot Gilligan’s Island-style stick cabin without modern comforts like vaccines, or heat, or toilet paper may not be for everyone, but it is where the Nauglers want to be. They are a “homeschooling family of 2 adults, children, 3 dogs, 2 cats and a few random farm animals. According to their blog, Blessed Little Homestead, Joe Naugler, his five-months-pregnant pet-groomer wife Nicole, and their 10 children are living the good life. ![]()
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