Post by asteli on Oct 2, 2009 18:25:35 GMT -5
My name is Lisa. I stumbled across your blog a couple weeks ago & I've been busy reading the whole thing whenever I could fit it in since then.
I've been fascinated & disturbed by the Duggars ever since I heard of them, although I'd actually had contact with some women who were QF even before then, through parenting message boards. One woman in particular was Catholic, about 28 & already had 6 kids. That was 7 years ago, so I dread to think how many she has now. She's far from the only one I've met though, just the first.
Until I read your blog, I didn't realize how associated QF was with the submissive wife thing. There's a tribe on the mothering.com message boards for biblical marriage with wifely submission. They all seem happy, but I'm sure people would have said the same about the women who've posted their stories here. I can kind of understand the appeal of not having to make decisions ( 'cause I hate doing it) but at the same time there's something so disempowering about it. Even before reading here, it seemed to me that it was kind of dehumanizing, too.
I've always been interested, yet disturbed, by how religious people think. I've never considered myself religious; agnostic would probably be closest. At the ripe age of 7 or so I realized that it all had no meaning to me & seemed completely illogical. My parents continued dragging us to church every week for a few years after that, but it was just something to endure. Through the years, some of my closest friends have been religious, but we've been able to agree to disagree.
I'm a mom of 3 boys; 8, 4 & 7 months. I'm homeschooling my oldest because he has some issues, which he'll hopefully grow out of, but which make school a bad idea for right now. We'll see what happens with my other 2.
I'm also a midwifery student & (I hesitate to post this here, given some of the comments) an unassisted birther. My oldest son was delivered by cesarean & my other 2 were born at home with just immediate family & 1 friend.
I frequently run into Christians in both homeschooling & unassisted circles. Actually, I'm usually outnumbered by them & my husband is tired of having to add "but we're not religious" when he talks about homeschooling.
I've been fascinated & disturbed by the Duggars ever since I heard of them, although I'd actually had contact with some women who were QF even before then, through parenting message boards. One woman in particular was Catholic, about 28 & already had 6 kids. That was 7 years ago, so I dread to think how many she has now. She's far from the only one I've met though, just the first.
Until I read your blog, I didn't realize how associated QF was with the submissive wife thing. There's a tribe on the mothering.com message boards for biblical marriage with wifely submission. They all seem happy, but I'm sure people would have said the same about the women who've posted their stories here. I can kind of understand the appeal of not having to make decisions ( 'cause I hate doing it) but at the same time there's something so disempowering about it. Even before reading here, it seemed to me that it was kind of dehumanizing, too.
I've always been interested, yet disturbed, by how religious people think. I've never considered myself religious; agnostic would probably be closest. At the ripe age of 7 or so I realized that it all had no meaning to me & seemed completely illogical. My parents continued dragging us to church every week for a few years after that, but it was just something to endure. Through the years, some of my closest friends have been religious, but we've been able to agree to disagree.
I'm a mom of 3 boys; 8, 4 & 7 months. I'm homeschooling my oldest because he has some issues, which he'll hopefully grow out of, but which make school a bad idea for right now. We'll see what happens with my other 2.
I'm also a midwifery student & (I hesitate to post this here, given some of the comments) an unassisted birther. My oldest son was delivered by cesarean & my other 2 were born at home with just immediate family & 1 friend.
I frequently run into Christians in both homeschooling & unassisted circles. Actually, I'm usually outnumbered by them & my husband is tired of having to add "but we're not religious" when he talks about homeschooling.
