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September 2015

September 01, 2015

Mothers are NOT always right

I am not saying mothers have an obligation to always be there for their kids...

June 2015

June 22, 2015

Not Every Courtship Looks Like the Duggars’

Not all courtships look the same. It seems that the high-profile Duggar courtships have so...

June 16, 2015

You always sound so angry!

We're at the point, those of us calling out spiritual abuse and toxic structures of...

February 2015

February 12, 2015

The Pennington Point on Adult Kids Living at Home

I just stumbled upon a blog post Lisa Pennington wrote last August, a month before...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Israel Wayne on the (Patriarchal) Father’s Role

Israel Wayne is supposed to be a voice of reason in the Christian homeschooling community....

July 2014

July 07, 2014

You Are Not Entitled to My Life

Ever since writing recently about what it means to be "involved" in their adult children's...

October 2013

October 06, 2013

The Botkins: Don’t Let Children Roll Their Eyes

And there it is. For the Botkins, it's not just actual obedience that matters, it's...

March 2013

March 07, 2013

Homeschooling under the Influence

After I wrote my posts on academics and socialization, I realized that there is another...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

How I Lost Faith in the “Pro-Life” Movement

The spring of my sophomore year of college I was president of my university's Students...

September 2012

September 11, 2012

Whose Politics Is It Anyway?

Yesterday I was watching Rachel Maddow with Sally. Rachel had Elizabeth Warren on, and I...

September 08, 2012

When It Really Is about Controlling Women

A reader offered the following in a comment on a recent post on abortion: "What...

August 2012

August 23, 2012

What the history of feminism has to teach Atheism+

As many of you certainly know, over the past year there has been a lot...

August 12, 2012

Just Obey: Christian Patriarchy as Spiritual Abuse

I have heard the term "spiritual abuse" thrown around the blogosphere lately and I just...

July 2012

July 21, 2012

Christian Patriarchy to Men: You don’t have to grow up!

What are the qualities we generally associate with maturity? The ability to see things from...

June 2012

June 11, 2012

Raised Quiverfull: The Family Responds to Questioning

How did your parents and siblings respond to you questioning/rejecting their beliefs? How did those...

March 2012

March 10, 2012

Authoritarian Parenting and Adult Children

This is part of a series in which I am re-posting a number of posts...

January 2012

January 11, 2012

“A Religious, Authoritarian Culture”

I just came upon an article called "Are you raising your children in a religious,...

December 2011

December 03, 2011

Authoritarian Parenting and Adult Children

Writing on this blog is like watching synapses in my brain suddenly connect. I love...

October 2011

October 22, 2011

An Examination of Emotional Manipulation

My husband brings in the mail. "There's a letter for you," he informs me. "Who...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Who are you trying to follow?

I was taught by my parents that my goal in life should be to follow...

September 12, 2011

“We don’t ‘do’ teenagers”

As I approached puberty, my parents told me that "we're not going to do that...

September 08, 2011

An Ideological Straight-Jacket

I just realized that in my last post I made the my home and those...

September 01, 2011

My Life, as told by Disney

My all time favorite Disney movie is Tangled. When I first watched it, I cried...

July 2011

July 04, 2011

The Beautiful Girlhood Doll, part 10: I’m a Person, Not a Doll!

It has now been some years since I left my parents’ house and shifted for...

July 02, 2011

The Beautiful Girlhood Doll, part 9: The Broken Doll

Soon after this rethinking of my parents’ beliefs, I returned home from college for a...

June 2011

June 27, 2011

The Problem: Parents or Ideology?

After my It’s About the Daughters post was crossposted on No Longer Quivering, I received...

June 21, 2011

(Too) Great Expectations

Quiverfull teaches that Christian parents should have large numbers of children in order to raise...

June 16, 2011

Sons of Patriarchy

Yes yes, I know I just said it’s about the daughters, but it’s actually about...

June 15, 2011

It’s about the Daughters

When it comes to the multitude of problems with Christian Patriarchy, it is the position...