What's most amusing about Quiverfull is that their most prominent family the
Duggars actually have deviated from Quiverfull philosophy.
Quiverfull espouses leaving the number of children a family has in God's hands--which means you don't try to prevent pregnancy, but neither to you try to achieve it:
Quote:
Adherents view barrenness, referred to as an "empty quiver" by adherents, as something to be accepted from God if that is his choice, while also making it a matter of prayer in the belief that God may wish to miraculously intervene. Infertility treatments are seen as a usurpation of God's providence and accordingly rejected.
But the Duggars actually take steps to
ensure that more children are conceived, such as limiting breastfeeding to only a few months so that lactational amenorrhea doesn't prevent pregnancy.
Apparently acknowledging that "God" took steps to space out childbearing by limiting the ability to conceive while feeding one's child the way "God" intended doesn't count as following "God's" plan. Who knew?
Now, personally I'm all for anyone having as many or as few children as they desire, but I would desperately love to inform that woman that her uterus is not, in fact, a clown car.
Edited, Mar 25th 2009 9:44am by Ambrya