Get Them Married: Selling Virgin Daughters

The “Get Them Married Retreat”: how a homeschool speaker is promoting trafficking and child marriage right here in the U.S.

Crooked Arrow: Smith Lingo’s Story

I realized from a very early age that my dad cared more about me as an idea than about me as a person, a discrete, tangible being.

A Quiverfull of Definitions

Attempts to describe this constellation of groups as “quiverfull” run into serious definitional problems.

Devoted: Book Review by Kierstyn King

“Devoted comes out June 2nd. Go buy it. My copy is tear-stained, so.”

The Curse of Being Bound to an Image

“This is the curse of being bound to an image of what your life should look like.”

Dreams

“It was only a dream, I tell myself. And yet…..it’s probably not far from the reality.”

Born to Breed

“We were quiverfull, and we were proud of it.”

What is Quiverfull?

“When I speak of the ‘Quiverfull movement’ I really mean all of those who are influenced by Quiverfull ideas, not simply those who go all the way and reject birth control entirely. For me, the idea of raising children to be arrows shot into the world is a more important part of Quiverfull than is a complete rejection of birth control.”

Aging Backwards

“When I was 8, I was expected to be an adult. I had adult responsibilities (taking care of kids) and was expected to act as mature as an adult – learn all the things, do all the things, cook all the food, wash all the babies. I had to fight for some semblance of my own childhood. My mom wanted me to grow up and grow up fast.”

Voices of Sister-Moms: Part Six, Mary’s Story

“As I was growing up, I got very used to hearing remarks and jokes about how many children we ourselves would have when we grew up. Some people would sit down and start doing the ‘if all 8 of you have 8 children’ equations. Then they would start joking about what family reunions would look like.”