Ethiopia was propelled to its position as a top "sender" of orphaned children to the west, due in part to the adoption fervor and also to misinformation about orphaned children in need. Around 2008-10, a movement took off within this community to adopt children from the global South. Pride is one of very few women who are leaders in the Quiverfull movement, the majority of movement leaders are men.Īmong certain US Christian Evangelical and Fundamentalist enclaves, the ideologies of Quiverfull and Christian Patriarchy govern family structure and religious life. She espouses against all forms of birth control, including natural family planning, claiming that attempting to control women's reproductive capacity is in direct contradiction with God's will. the submission of women to their families and God. It is only through the first person account from women who have experience in Quiverfull that scholars can explore the meaning of this new brand of Evangelical Christianity. Women who have left Quiverfull expose the nature of the movement as patriarchal and misogynistic. Women within Quiverfull see reproduction as a holy act in the war against birth control and abortion. First person accounts were gathered through movement literature and online support communities from women within the movement and from women who have left the movement. This article explores the experiences of women in Quiverfull and women who have left Quiverfull through their first person accounts.
This combined with the movement's focus on the submission of women creates an absence of literature from women within the Quiverfull community. Due to its relative newness, there is a lack of established research on Quiverfull communities. Practitioners of Quiverfull believe all forms of birth control, including natural family planning, are sinful. The Quiverfull movement is a relatively new movement within the existing Evangelical Christian community in the United States, first appearing in Christian communities in the late 1980s.
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