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Quiverfull Movement
It’s a fine line parents walk when training their kids in the way they should go. I know because I tried with my daughter to do my to give her a good upbringing. Her father died when she was just 14 and change our entire life.
One never knows what strange twist of fate will change your life forever.
These young people are speaking out about the hurt and speaking out.
Homeschooled Kids, Now Grown, Blog Against the Past
They were homeschooled in Christian families to be dutiful, have many children, and follow tradition. But now they are taking to the Internet to expose their painful pasts.
The Christian homeschooling movement first took off in the early 1980s, in tandem with the broader rise of the religious right. The Home School Legal Defense Association was founded in 1983 to promote homeschooling and protect parents from state oversight. Its founder, Michael Farris, dreamed of creating a generation that could do battle with the corrupt secular world and reclaim the institutions of American life for Jesus.
At the extreme edge of Christian homeschooling culture, the Quiverfull movement, which picked up steam in the late 1980s,preached the duty of women to submit, bear as many children as God would give them, and train them up as dedicated culture warriors, arrows in a divine quiver.
It’s sad when young people are affected by choices their parents made, but you can learn from it and make different choice for you own children, but don’t be surprised when they have a problem with the choices YOU’VE made for them. Kids don’t come with manuals.
She’s published a guide for those planning to flee bad homeschooling situations, as well as what she calls “A Quick and Dirty Sex Ed Guide for Quiverfull Daughters.” Someday she hopes to become an advocate for homeschooled children’s rights, but she writes, “all I’ve got right now is my blog.”
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