Stay-at-home daughter explained

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[3] outside the home and a career,[4] [5] and according to Sarah Stankorb writing for Marie Claire, "complete subservience to their father". 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, 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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Adams . William Lee . Meet the ‘Selfless’ Women of the ‘Stay at Home Daughters Movement’ . time.com . Time . 28 November 2023.
  2. News: Prior. Karen Swallow. What Is the Stay-at-Home Daughters Movement?. 22 April 2016. Christianity Today. 20 December 2010.
  3. Web site: Stein . Sadie . The Women Of The "Stay At Home Daughters Movement" . jezebel.com . G/O Media . 28 November 2023.
  4. Web site: McGalliard . Gina . House Proud . bitchmagazine.org . 28 November 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20101115204347/http://bitchmagazine.org/article/house-proud. 2010-11-15.
  5. Web site: Stankorb . Sarah . The Daughters' Great Escape . marieclaire.com . Future plc . 28 November 2023.
  6. Book: Irons. Kendra Weddle. Mock. Melanie Springer. If Eve Only Knew: Freeing Yourself from Biblical Womanhood and Becoming All God Meant for You to Be. 2015. Chalice Press. 120. 22 April 2016. 9780827216709.
  7. Book: Ingersoll. Julie J.. Julie Ingersoll. Building God's Kingdom: Inside the World of Christian Reconstructionism. 2015. Oxford University Press. 153.
  8. Web site: Ingersoll . Julie J.. Julie Ingersoll. Doug Phillips' Biblical Patriarchy Scandal Moves to the Courts . huffpost.com . 28 November 2023. 2014.

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