Stay-at-home_daughter

Stay-at-home daughter

Stay-at-home daughter

Woman who lives at home until she is married

The stay-at-home daughter (SAHD) movement is a subset of the biblical patriarchy[1] and biblical womanhood movements, particularly within the United States and New Zealand. Adherents believe that "daughters should never leave the covering of their fathers until and unless they are married."[2] This means preparing to be a wife and mother, eschewing education[1][3] outside the home and a career,[4][5] and according to Sarah Stankorb writing for Marie Claire, "complete subservience to their father".[5] For most stay-at-home daughters it involves a focus on the "domestic arts" such as cooking, cleaning and sewing.[6] Julie Ingersoll suggests that the purpose of stay-at-home daughters is to "learn to assist their future husbands as helpmeets in their exercise of dominion by practicing that role in their relationship with their father."[7]

The term stay-at-home daughter was popularized by Doug Phillips and his Vision Forum ministry,[2][5] which has shut down operations after his confession of marital infidelity and allegations of sexual abuse.[8]

The key pioneers of this movement are the Botkin sisters, Anna Sofia and Elizabeth, who in 2005 wrote So Much More: The Remarkable Influence of Visionary Daughters on the Kingdom of God.[2]

References

  1. [1]
    Adams, William Lee. "Meet the 'Selfless' Women of the 'Stay at Home Daughters Movement'". time.com. Time. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  2. [2]
    Prior, Karen Swallow (20 December 2010). "What Is the Stay-at-Home Daughters Movement?". Christianity Today. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  3. [3]
    Stein, Sadie. "The Women Of The "Stay At Home Daughters Movement"". jezebel.com. G/O Media. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  4. [4]
    McGalliard, Gina. "House Proud". bitchmagazine.org. Archived from the original on 2010-11-15. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  5. [5]
    Stankorb, Sarah. "The Daughters' Great Escape". marieclaire.com. Future plc. Retrieved 28 November 2023.
  6. [6]
    Irons, Kendra Weddle; Mock, Melanie Springer (2015). If Eve Only Knew: Freeing Yourself from Biblical Womanhood and Becoming All God Meant for You to Be. Chalice Press. p. 120. ISBN 9780827216709. Retrieved 22 April 2016.
  7. [7]
    Ingersoll, Julie J. (2015). Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstructionism. Oxford University Press. p. 153.
  8. [8]
    Ingersoll, Julie J. (2014). "Doug Phillips' Biblical Patriarchy Scandal Moves to the Courts". huffpost.com. Retrieved 28 November 2023.


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