Understanding the Duggars: A Series of Posts at **Redeeming Dinah**

As part of a presentation, I decided to create what is essentially an online bibliography for those interested in background information about the Duggars, the Independent Fundamental Baptists (IFB), Gothard, Quiverfull, and the Troubled Teen Homes within the IFB. Information about them all can be accessed at the new site, Redeeming Dinah. 

Overviews of these subjects are provided/  Just the tabs at the blog's header for pages of info that include brief descriptions, helpful links and videos.

As part of that effort, I turned a fairly extensive email interview with a journalist about a year ago into a blog series at the new site. I hope will provide resources and encouragement to those who have exited the high demand systems listed above. It was a nice opportunity to review and consolidate information to make it more accessible.

Quiverfull: The View from Here

This series of posts draws from the information shared with a journalist in August of 2015 who had questions about the Quvierfull Movement as it related to the Duggar Family.

(Special thanks to Suzanne Titkemeyer and NLQ for helping me to select some of the best material in response to the questions regarding birthing.)

Follow links to excerpts from the interview, organized here by topic.

The High Demands of Quiverfull

• The General Appeal of Quiverfull
• Strategies for Educating Children
• A Virtuous, Better Way?
• Introduction to the High Demand Group Concept
• Quiverfull as a High Demand Group

Group Expectations

• The Pressure to Procrreate
• Rejection of the Childless in Quvierfull
• Changing Standards in Family Size
• Gradually Culled into Patriarchy
• Life Transitions for Aging Moms

Social Problems

• Reactions of Parents to New Recruits
• Need for Validation and Education after Leaving
• Need for Counseling After Exiting

Pregnancy and Birthing

• Babies and Mary Pride
• Social Engineering and Darwinism
• Babies, Post-Mary Pride, and More Social Engineerin
• Martyrdom by Ectopic Pregnancy
• Links to Personal stories of Birthing
• Birthing, Tess Willoughby, and the Great Commission
• War Against Women in Family Court?

Raising Children and the Aftermath

• Second Generation Adults (Raised in the Movement)
• Quivering Daughters
• Kingdom Mandates and Spiritual Covering
• Preferences for Complementary/Alternative Medicine
• A Nightmare Memory of Corporal Punishment  
• For Parents or Children?

Leaving Quiverfull / Patriarchy

• Manipulation and Control
• The HUGE Dealbreaker in my High Demand Church
• Shock, Awe and Curses
• PTSD Upon Exit
• Need for Validation and Education after Leaving
• Need for Counseling After Exiting
• Fearing Danger After Exiting
• The IFB and Curses