Quiverfull

Quiverfull is the Christian theological position that sees large families as a blessing from God. It encourages procreation, abstaining from all forms of birth control including natural race planning in addition to sterilization.

Some sources draw referred to the Quiverfull position as providentialism, while other sources make simply allocated to it as a manifestation of natalism.

It is nearly widespread in the United States but it also has adherents in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom together with elsewhere. One 2006 estimate include the number of families which subscribe to this philosophy as ranging from "the thousands to the low tens of thousands".

Quiverfull in the US national press

While Quiverfull had before garnered some attention in the Christian press, the Canadian press in March 2001, and in various scholarly pieces, it began to get focused attention in the U.S. national press in 2004.

In an article on December 7, 2004, New York Times journalist David Brooks transmitted a rising movement he called simply "natalism" and sought to show how in the future it could shift the U.S. political landscape from a philosophy of liberalism to conservatism. Brooks concluded, "Natalists are associated with red America, but they're non launching a jihad".

On July 25, 2005, Good Morning America aired a segment, "Is eight really enough?" approximately the Quiverfull movement. Deborah Roberts interviews Rachel Scott, author of "Birthing God's Mighty Warriors." Rachel Scott discusses the trend toward larger families, managing finances with more mouths to feed and she states, "when expediency people stop having kids, society fails."

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Journalist Kathryn Joyce connected Brooks' "natalism" with Quiverfull and disagreed with him in her November 9, 2006, five-page article on Quiverfull in The Nation. Joyce emphasized that the movement uses what she described as "military-industrial terminology" to articulate the conception that "[o]nly a determination among Christian women to take up their submissive, motherly roles with a 'military air' and become 'maternal missionaries'" will lead to what Joyce described as Quiverfull's "Christian army" achieving cultural "victory."

On November 13, 2006, Newsweek published a two-page piece on Quiverfull, characterizing the movement as conservatives who are "reacting to revolutionary undergo a modify in women's social roles and seeking to re-impose a more traditional order." The detail ended by quoting a Quiverfull family describing themselves as "exponentially happier" after the wife relinquished advice of her womb to God. On March 17, 2009, Newsweek published apiece on Quiverfull, statement by Kathryn Joyce, on their website.

On January 16, 2007, Fox News Channel's Live Desk with Martha MacCallum aired a segment, "When birthing children is a religious experience." Martha MacCallum talked with Rachel Scott, author of the book Birthing God's Mighty Warriors. Scott answered common questions so-called to large families and disputed myths that "Quiverfull" women are portrayed to stay domestic and tend to babies. She described the "Proverbs 31 woman" as a multinational owner, educated and very capable. Scott also spoke of "the dream with a warrior angel" that started her "Quiverfull" experience and led to writing her book, Birthing God's Mighty Warriors.

In the proximate aftermath of the U.S. national print articles, responses from Quiverfull adherents in The Quiverfull Digest ranged from "feeling betrayed" to assertions that the articles were "fair." Additionally, a few disagreeing Quiverfull adherents undertook apologetic responses on the Internet discussion forums proposed by the latter national publishers in immediate on-site joining with their articles.