American right-wing family pregnant with 18th child

[karbon14]

Originally Posted by stripey_kitten

Mo says that's just wishful thinking on your part.

i'm not joining your bloody commune! i enjoy my own house far too much for that

[Witch]

Originally Posted by karbon14

14, and she's easily young enough to have another 12 births if she manages 2 pairs of twins. sorted.

think of the knitting she'd have to do!

[stripey_kitten]

Originally Posted by karbon14

i'm not joining your bloody commune! i enjoy my own house far too much for that

What if I told you Simon would be there? That would totally change your mind.

[Mwezzi]

Originally Posted by endless psych

Which ideas have terrified you so?

I ask only because with the lack of their website being up and running (more servers less children people) I am unaware what their ideas are other then "every child being a gift from god" which is probably how most parents feel anyway (admitadly most parents aren't that greedy so as to have as many gifts fae the big man but still.) and the standard anti-contraception tripe.

The whole Quiverfull philosophy rubs me up the wrong way. From my reading about the Duggars, they educate all their children but train their boys to be leaders and their girls to be wives-of-men. Being almost constantly pregnant isn't actually good for a woman, and even with good healthcare it must be taking its toll on Michelle, and certainly it's not suited to all the women in the movement. When they say the reject all forms of contraception, they usually mean all forms - rhythm method and other 'natural' forms included. As for the movement as a whole, the 'onward Christian soldiers thing', whilst on the surface just being about loving all your children as God-given and never rejecting them, often hides other racist/sectarian stuff. These attitudes are then being passed on to LOTS OF YOUNG, IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN - and with home-schooling also playing a big part in many of these families, they're not really being given a balanced perspective.

[EDIT: also, I hate children, and these people are giving birth to legions of them.]

[Dec]

Racist parents are passing their views onto their children? PHONE THE POLIS.

[lirazel]

Originally Posted by endless psych

Which ideas have terrified you so?

I ask only because with the lack of their website being up and running (more servers less children people) I am unaware what their ideas are other then "every child being a gift from god" which is probably how most parents feel anyway (admitadly most parents aren't that greedy so as to have as many gifts fae the big man but still.) and the standard anti-contraception tripe.

hang on, i've read something somewhere... *googlerummage*...there's an article here that covers some of it. as mwezzi says, it's mostly along the lines of rabid pro-life-ing with an emphasis upon raising an army of nice-white-christian-children-for-god.

[AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS]

[Jenpot]

"Quiverfull women are more than mothers. They're domestic warriors in the battle against what they see as forty years of destruction wrought by women's liberation: contraception, women's careers, abortion, divorce, homosexuality and child abuse, in that order."

Oh dear.

[Mwezzi]

Originally Posted by Jenpot

"Quiverfull women are more than mothers. They're domestic warriors in the battle against what they see as forty years of destruction wrought by women's liberation: contraception, women's careers, abortion, divorce, homosexuality and child abuse, in that order."

Oh dear.

I have a postcard with a Pat Robertson quote on it stuck up on my wall. It reads: "Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practise witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."

Proud to be a hairy witch, here. Basically, Quiverfull views any woman who doesn't accept a barefoot-and-pregnant position at her husband's (ding! hetero!) feet as unnatural, immoral and evil.

[Jenpot]

A hairy, chick-boinking, murdering, spinster witch, here.

[Mwezzi]

Originally Posted by Jenpot

A hair, chick-boinking, murdering, spinster witch, here.

Let's get a civil partnership. But totally do it with all our lezzie friends first for three years beforehand.

[Westy]

Trust woman to take the fun out of sexism.

[Jenpot]

Take the fun out?

There's booze at civil partnership after-parties.

Guess who's off the invitation list.

[Mwezzi]

Originally Posted by Westy

Trust woman to take the fun out of sexism.

YOU'RE TOTALLY OFF MY THREESOME LIST NOW.

[Westy]

I'm only into thirty-six-somes anyway.