Find
the Index of all
posts HERE.
Question:
What
do you believe is the appeal of QF to women in 2015 America?
Response
Part One:
In
general, I would say that the good and healthy appeal today remains
timeless: to provide a nurturing, healthy home as a safe haven from
a painful and difficult world, offering the best benefits of life to
beloved children so that they could do likewise. Following the old
adage that “the best things in life are free,” the
Quiverfull/Patriarchy Movement (QF/P) aspires to instill that
timeless value in the hearts of their children so that they can make
the world a better place. I know few families who would not find
this an inspiring and virtuous ideal.
Personally,
I see the popularity of QF/P as a religious manifestation of what was
already taking place within the larger culture — perhaps the
zeitgeist of those who fell to the end of the Baby Boomer Generation
and extended into Generation X. Young parents who grew up with
working
mothers during leaner financial times during the 1970s desired a
better home life than they had. Young adults with working mothers
looked back on the nostalgia of earlier days, hoping to “have it
all,” offering something better to their own families.
Homesteading appealed to the latent hippies who poured over Mother
Earth News as they sought self-sufficient, greener, more
simple ways of living. The focus on home and the wholesomeness of the
past could be seen in the popularity of Martha
Stewart’s multi-media success which followed after her first
publication in 1982. By the 1990s, college educated women pioneered
innovative solutions like full time job sharing to allow them more
time at home, and some
abandoned careers to attend to the needs of their young, growing
families.
~
Cynthia Kunsman
and
the view of Quiverfull from my vantage
August
2015
