INCH Homeschool Conference to Feature Child Marriage Advocate

Advocates for child marriage and trafficking should have no platform in homeschooling circles.

Christian Homeschool Leader Announces Conference for Arranging Child Marriages

This is beyond not okay.

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.

The Ideology of Underage Marriages in Conservative Christianity

Rather than at least remaining neutral on the subject or better yet, speaking up for voiceless girls and young women like the Bible adjures Christians to do, certain teachers, preachers, and celebrities like Swanson, Bruehner, Robertson, the Duggar family, and others, actively encourage early marriage, even child marriage…

Malala and Me

“I hope that somehow Malala Yousafzai’s words find their way through to all of the stay-at-home daughters.”

Child Marriage: I Dodged the Bullet

Ever since I can remember, my mom really really really wanted to be pregnant at the same time as me.

On Child Marriage: Kevin Swanson and Dave Bruehner Defend Phil Robertson

“Kevin Swanson and Dave Bruehner have now publicly joined with Phil Robertson (in particular) and Matthew Chapman (in general) in defense of child marriage. In their latest Generations with Vision broadcast, ‘Sexting and Christian Modesty,’ Swanson and Bruehner mount a defense of Phil Robertson.”

Like Matthew Chapman, Duck Dynasty Star Endorsed Child Marriage

“In both cases, the reasons for endorsing child marriage are essentially identical: girls married off at 15 are children, not adults, and are therefore more pliable, less assertive, and more easily led. They do not have life experience or a fully developed sense of self.”

Matthew and Maranatha Chapman Withdraw from 2014 CHEO Convention

As of yesterday, Matthew and Maranatha Chapman are no longer presenting at Christian Home Educators of Ohio’s (CHEO) annual homeschool convention this summer. Matthew Chapman was a keynote speakers and his wife Maranatha was slated as a featured speaker.

Lev Tahor and The Quebec Homeschooling Case

“Lev Tahor is a fringe movement from within ultra-orthodox Judaism and is headed by Rabbi Shlomo Helbrans and his son Nachman. The Rabbi is now estranged from his wife and one of his sons, who are now in Israel. Lev Tahor has been called a ‘Haredi burqa sect’ or part of the ‘Jewish Taliban.’ Its members are known in Canada and Israel for homeschooling their children. Sometime in 2013, investigations began in Quebec due to concerns about the children’s education and welfare, the young ages of girls given in marriage, as well as allegations of abuse.”