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Want to have kids? How about 12? Oddly enough, that's the aim of a small, Christian subculture called the Quiverfull Movement. At a time when Judith Warner's manifesto on the hell of raising even a couple of kiddos in our society is on the NY Times Bestseller List, Quiverfull moms and dads believe that birth control should be left entirely up to God, thus they forgo even the Catholic-church approved natural family planning methods.
This, of course, leads to supersized families and, from the sound of the articles published on Quiverfull Web sites, seriously stressed out parents. “What does it mean to endure” and “God is bigger than our circumstances” are typical titles which don't quite manage to put a happy spin on the whole situation. In “Against all Odds,” we hear from a woman who went ahead and had ten kids in spite of serious health problems involving missing organs. Of course, better to risk one's health than to blaspheme. Eek!
My personal favorite, however, is simply titled “101 Reasons For Having Children.” Here are a few that didn’t quite convince me:
This, of course, leads to supersized families and, from the sound of the articles published on Quiverfull Web sites, seriously stressed out parents. “What does it mean to endure” and “God is bigger than our circumstances” are typical titles which don't quite manage to put a happy spin on the whole situation. In “Against all Odds,” we hear from a woman who went ahead and had ten kids in spite of serious health problems involving missing organs. Of course, better to risk one's health than to blaspheme. Eek!
My personal favorite, however, is simply titled “101 Reasons For Having Children.” Here are a few that didn’t quite convince me:
- My children think I'm beautiful no matter how I look.
- We desire to raise up a standard for God in this evil day.
- Children are like arrows which we send to places where we will never be able to go.
- To prevent menses and enjoy the nursing hormones of prolactin and oxytocin.
- I would hate to stand before God on Judgment Day and have to answer why I rejected the children He had ordained for our family.
- There will be more people to pay for the aged's social security benefits. (There's a plan for ya, Mr. Prez!)
For further reading:
Quiverfull.com
Quiverfull.org
AboveRubies
LotsOfKids.com
3 Comments:
Wow, your blogging shows your great ignorance. Your accusation that being quiverfull means a family desires, has or will have 12 children. When infact, the premise of quiverfull is to accept the will of God, be that 12, 2 or NO children.
Also, the Catholic church only approves of NFP under serious circumstance. You make it sound as if the church thinks NFP is no biggie - to them it IS, though.
Before you start slandering people, perhaps you should actually know what they believe. I could say your a leftist, libearl, baby-killing, pig - but seeing as how I don't actually know any more about you that one or two blog entries, I won't.
The above poster needs professional help or a life.
Hello? The Catholic Church expects and always has expected women be constantly preggers.
So do the fundies.
By the way, idiot-who-prefers-to-stay-anonymous, what's a "libearl"?
Well, if people can afford all these kids, I don't have any problem with them deciding to have as many as they want.
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