I blogged a couple of months ago about Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, a married couple in Arkansas that were expecting their 18th child. They were getting their own reality show on the Discovery Channel, 17 Kids and Counting. At the time I thought they were just incredibly weird. As it turns out, there is an actual name for what they are doing.
It’s called the Quiverful movement.
A quiver is the thing an archer uses to hold all of his arrows. To someone who practices Quiverful, their home is the quiver and their children are the arrows. The idea is to stock their quiver with as many arrows as they can. It’s practiced primarily by conservative Christian evangelicals here in the United States. They almost never use any form of birth control or any other type of family planning.
The Duggars are people living the Quiverful or “QF” life.
I still think it’s pretty weird. They must think very highly of their genes to so heavily overstock the gene pool. Evidently the Duggars can afford the Quiverful lifestyle. I read on the Discovery Channel website that they own their own cellphone tower. I didn’t even know they had cellphones in Arkansas.
Not only do we have cell phones in Arkansas, but on occasion we have been known to put down our corn cob pipies and moonshine jugs and use them!!! To save you from the shock of future revelations we also have universities, libraries, museums, and most of us have all of our teeth and wear shoes. I’ll have to go now so I can wash my husband’s overalls and my cotton dress. Oh, and grandma needs another plug of tobacco.
@Rhonda: I forget to mention that people in Arkansas don’t understand sarcasm. Oh yeah, and your roads suck.
Apparently you don’t know the meaning of sarcasm. It is a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain or a mode of expression intended to arouse amusement. I thought I did pretty good, I made everybody here in my office laugh. Smile it will be okay!! Our roads suck, is that the best you got?
@Rhonda: Come on now, you just copied the definition of sarcasm out of the Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition. Page 1103 to be exact.
And yes the roads in Arkansas are just awful. When we drove I-40 across your fine state 8 years ago, the bumps and potholes were so bad, I think I broke my pancreas. It’s never been the same since. I filed a complaint with your governor and he responded by sending me $40 in Confederate money and a bottle of moonshine.
Good boy! Now your getting it!!!!
Good boy! Now you’re getting it!!!!
The roads you are talking about are in Oklahoma. Once you cross the Arkansas line, they get much better.
Sorry about that last misuse of grammar, you actually made me laugh and I wasn’t thinking clearly.
Hey Rhonda… “grammer” is spelled “grammar.” A-R, not E-R. LOL I love people from Arkansas!
No The roads are definitely in Arkansas. I-40 from West Memphis to Little Rock almost beat my kidneys out a few years back. They are a little better now but honestly it used to be like ski jumps for 300 miles. On the other side coming back it was a little better but nothing to brag about
Im 53,divorced&childless, I look at the Quiverful movement&wish it werearound back in the 60s&70s. In my youth there were always BOYS,BOYS&MORE BOYS. The Church situation was always like this. The girls I remember, many had fertility problems& neither had children or just one.A drug called DES was given to many white baby-boomer moms&it affected the fertility of many white baby-boomer daughters when they came of age in the 60s, 70s&80s. My ex-wife took anti-convulsant medication for 20 years&this messed with her fertility so we never had any children-BUMMER. My hopes are that Christianity coming into its finest hour with the healings&miracles that Jesus did plus the other signs&wonders that happened in the Bible& the restoration of the Garden of Eden coming into the true church with the innocence of Adam&eve&Jesus Christ&that cool of the day communion that they had in the Garden before they fell. I see the Millenium as a time in which there will be no infertle men or women-these meek who will inherit the earth. Another thing I saw in my Christian youth was a LOPSIDED POSTERITY WITH FAMILIES BEING ALL BOY OR JUST ONE GIRL IN A BUNCH OF BOYS IT WAS EVERYWHERE I WENT IN MY YOUTH TO ME THIS IS NOT A BLESSING BUT A CURSE, IT IS AS BAD AS INFERTILITY. I beleive that in the Millenium for every boy born there will be a girl Satan has really attacted the fertility of white women throughout the course of the 20th century, for the black community this has not been so. Birth control&decreasing posterity was first with white women, now many brunette women this is happening, however amoung black people around the world they have always resisted practiceing birth control&lowering their posterity. I find this very interesting&I beleive that there are spiritual influences behind this. I beleive that Satan wants to reduce the human gene-pool to just mostly black genes&no more white or brunette genes& with gender mostly boys& few girls