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In Quiverfull Movement, Birth Control Is Shunned
by BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY

Among some conservative Christians, a movement is giving new meaning to the biblical mandate to "be fruitful and multiply."

The movement, called Quiverfull, is based on Psalm 127, which says, "Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth. Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them."

Those in the Quiverfull movement shun birth control, believing that God will give them the right number of children. It turns out, that's a lot of kids.

'We Actually Didn't Want Children'

While cooking a typical predawn breakfast in the Swanson household in Shelby, Mich., 10-year-old Lydia Swanson cracks a dozen eggs laid by the family chickens. Her mother, Kelly, fries 3 pounds of sausage from the family's own pig and toasts a 12-inch loaf of homemade bread.

If they didn't raise their own food, Kelly Swanson says, they'd spend $1,000 a month on groceries for her gaggle of growing children, including 15-year-old Josiah and 13-year-old Elisha. But in listing their ages, Kelly gets Elisha's age wrong.

"At least I remembered your name," she says.

Kelly can perhaps be forgiven the lapse. The 40-year-old mom has seven children; the youngest is 6 months. And she'd like to have more.

The Swansons subscribe to the Quiverfull movement.

"When we first got married, we actually didn't want children," Kelly's husband, Jeff Swanson, says.

But then the Swansons began to notice that the Bible was very high on big families. And Kelly says that she and Jeff decided that God knew how many children they could handle.

"We just started thinking, 'God is sovereign over life and death. God opens and closes the womb,' " Kelly says. "That's what his word says, so why we're trying to fiddle around and controlling ourselves, we need to stop doing that."..........................>>>>.............>>>>..............http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102005062

Related articles:
http://www.quiverfull.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull

http://www.alternet.org/belief/141499/my_womb_for_god's_purposes:_the_perils_of_unassisted_childbirth_in_the_quiverfull_movement_/

OMG.....that is the Roman Catholic Church philosophy....marching across the west.....then it just became a need
for more farm hands....

Are the Duggars part of that?

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Are the Duggars part of that?

Yes they are!

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Are the Duggars part of that?

I think they are just crazy---I think they could solve the 'illegal immigrant' problem all on their own...

Well Senders Roman Catholicism still frowns on artifical birth control.  But I'd rather see that than somebody using abortion as birth control.  I heard yesterday about a young woman who has had ten (10) abortions--that's her form of BC.  I had six. And the last one at 41.  I quivered to think I would have anymore and so did my doc.

Well look at Jim Bob and his wife.  She looks like she had a lobotomy.  Her eyes are always glazed over.  Are they not permitted to have TV sets?  Mrs. Duggar may want to think about going to the Mall instead.

I know a woman who lives in my son's old neighborhood. I think she is on her 5th or 6th child. I believe it is the husband who wants the children, in this case. She just goes along. She goes along on anti-depressants.

I dont believe in using abortion as a form of birth control either....there ARE other choices....abortion is
just PLAIN dangerous.....however, so is hormone manipulation.....we have not evolved past the Frankenstein
step yet.....but, by not relying on 'medicine' there IS another choice and it's homosapians choice to use it.....
"God" is logic.....

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Well look at Jim Bob and his wife.  She looks like she had a lobotomy.  Her eyes are always glazed over.  Are they not permitted to have TV sets?  Mrs. Duggar may want to think about going to the Mall instead.

That's true!

Hasidic Jews also have many many children.  Comes under the same heading "be fruitful and multiply."  
G-d will provide.  But those women don't seem to have that same vacant look on their face as Mrs. Jim Bob.  Fundamentalism is scary no matter whose it is.

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Hasidic Jews also have many many children.  Comes under the same heading "be fruitful and multiply."  
G-d will provide.  But those women don't seem to have that same vacant look on their face as Mrs. Jim Bob.  Fundamentalism is scary no matter whose it is.

I agree.....Jon and Kate plus eight is hollywoodmentalism.....pathetic