Saturday, March 21, 2009

Quiverfull




I came across this article in Newsweek. It is about the Dugger family, who apparently had their own reality TV show. The Duggers are part of the Quiverfull Movement, a pro-life, purist lifestyle movement that believes that gender equality is contrary to God's law and abstain from using any form of birth control.

From the article:

"At the heart of this reality-show depiction of "extreme motherhood" is a growing conservative Christian emphasis on the importance of women submitting to their husbands and fathers, an antifeminist backlash that holds that gender equality is contrary to God's law and that women's highest calling is as wives and "prolific" mothers."

check out the rest of the article here

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