Being new, I would normally not start a thread but I found this interesting and I saw no articles or mention of it.
Quiverfull.
It is a Christian movement that seeks to have as many kids as possible. The average family size is about 8.5 I think.
Why? Well, the future belongs to those who are fruitful and multiply. They make it clear they seek to outpopulate the Blue States, and even seem to want to compete with Muslims in western countries. Or at least see the example being set.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=102005062
One notable family is the Duggers. They have a show I think.
http://www.newsweek.com/inside-duggar-fa...logy-76547
Part of their teachings is an ideological opposition to feminism, by implication this is due to its birth suppressing nature.
"Dreams of demographic dominion aside, what's problematic about Quiverfull for many is the position the movement relegates women to on its way there. Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, a former Quiverfull writer who left the movement, says that the lifestyle is frequently one of unrelenting duty and labor that leaves women little recourse if the demands of their lives prove too much to bear. "The Quiverfull movement holds up as examples men like the Duggars ... all men of means. But for every family like this, there are ten or fifty or one hundred Quiverfull families living in what most would consider to be poverty ... Mothers are in a constant cycle, often, of pregnancy, breastfeeding, and the care of toddlers." Women are expected to feed and care for a large family on what are frequently limited resources, and the strain leads some to suffer clinical levels of exhaustion and self-neglect. The work that mothers can't manage usually falls to their eldest daughters, who learn early that their role in life is domestic, as helpmeets to their parents and later their husbands, and as mothers to many children.
Quiverfull and what could be called the submissive lifestyle are ultimately convictions of faith, and many women choose to follow them regardless of potential hardships. This is, of course, their choice, but fans of TV's novel large families should not overlook their comprehensive ideology that argues that family planning and feminism are cultural scourges to be eradicated, and that women's highest calling is in becoming prolific mothers and submissive wives. A glimpse of this reality is sometimes visible beneath TV's glossy treatment of Quiverfull families, but more often it's difficult to see the hard edges of ideology underlying yet another large family adventure."
This is more of what they say about themselves
http://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war?page=full
And Slate is not happy of course
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201...rfull.html
I thought this would be nice to be brought to the attention of the forum. Roosh recently wrote an article about an absence of religious narrative destroying birth rates, and with the subject of demographic jihad on the forum it seems somewhat related. Users can make of it what they will.
Personally, it's either going to be them or the Mormons who take over America. It could be worse.
Quiverfull.
It is a Christian movement that seeks to have as many kids as possible. The average family size is about 8.5 I think.
Why? Well, the future belongs to those who are fruitful and multiply. They make it clear they seek to outpopulate the Blue States, and even seem to want to compete with Muslims in western countries. Or at least see the example being set.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story...=102005062
One notable family is the Duggers. They have a show I think.
http://www.newsweek.com/inside-duggar-fa...logy-76547
Part of their teachings is an ideological opposition to feminism, by implication this is due to its birth suppressing nature.
"Dreams of demographic dominion aside, what's problematic about Quiverfull for many is the position the movement relegates women to on its way there. Cheryl Lindsey Seelhoff, a former Quiverfull writer who left the movement, says that the lifestyle is frequently one of unrelenting duty and labor that leaves women little recourse if the demands of their lives prove too much to bear. "The Quiverfull movement holds up as examples men like the Duggars ... all men of means. But for every family like this, there are ten or fifty or one hundred Quiverfull families living in what most would consider to be poverty ... Mothers are in a constant cycle, often, of pregnancy, breastfeeding, and the care of toddlers." Women are expected to feed and care for a large family on what are frequently limited resources, and the strain leads some to suffer clinical levels of exhaustion and self-neglect. The work that mothers can't manage usually falls to their eldest daughters, who learn early that their role in life is domestic, as helpmeets to their parents and later their husbands, and as mothers to many children.
Quiverfull and what could be called the submissive lifestyle are ultimately convictions of faith, and many women choose to follow them regardless of potential hardships. This is, of course, their choice, but fans of TV's novel large families should not overlook their comprehensive ideology that argues that family planning and feminism are cultural scourges to be eradicated, and that women's highest calling is in becoming prolific mothers and submissive wives. A glimpse of this reality is sometimes visible beneath TV's glossy treatment of Quiverfull families, but more often it's difficult to see the hard edges of ideology underlying yet another large family adventure."
This is more of what they say about themselves
http://www.thenation.com/article/arrows-war?page=full
And Slate is not happy of course
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/201...rfull.html
I thought this would be nice to be brought to the attention of the forum. Roosh recently wrote an article about an absence of religious narrative destroying birth rates, and with the subject of demographic jihad on the forum it seems somewhat related. Users can make of it what they will.
Personally, it's either going to be them or the Mormons who take over America. It could be worse.