Quoting Quiverfull: Calling in the Media on Social Service?

April 18, 2013 By 5 Comments
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by Rebekah Pearl Anast from Homeschooling Pioneers Actually, the media wasn’t negative. It was a strategic move by my Dad to take the heat off of us. Social Services had gotten wind of our home education, and we were given a court summons. The judge and a few power-hungry and small-minded

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20 Ways Not to Respond to Homeschool Horror Stories

April 17, 2013 By 5 Comments
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by Becoming Worldly The following are a list of things that range from impolite to incredibly disrespectful that I have heard since I started speaking out about this issue. I’m (unfortunately) not making any of these up and I’ve actually had every single one of them either said to me or seen them said to [...]

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Quoting Quiverfull: Struggling Adult Daughters?

April 17, 2013 By 21 Comments
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by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin of Visionary Daughters – Authoritative Parents, Adult Daughters & Power Struggles – May 14, 2007 Many stay-at-home girls believe that, as they become adults, their fathers’ jurisdiction

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On Being Your Husband’s “Playmate”

April 16, 2013 By 9 Comments
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by Libby Anne Created To Be His Help Meet, pp. 42-44 This section follows Debi’s story about the time Mike tried to show off, ended up spilling a sack of garbage, and then marched off in embarrassment leaving her to clean it up. The moral of Debi’s story was the last part,

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Orphan Fever

April 16, 2013 By 17 Comments
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by Calulu Mother Jones magazine has finally published Kathryn Joyce’s account of the Evangelical Movement’s obsession with adoption and the inevitable not so great outcomes when you don’t take practicalities of foreign adoption under consideration.

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