[ SECRET POST #2860 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2860 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[diet_poison]

oh I know they're not, but QF is the only Official Word for those groups that I remember, and I know there are others who are similar.

I'd like to think they're at least relatively few and far-between. Maybe they'll eventually cease to exist if they run out of their own to marry...

[a_potato]

The trouble is that they're multiplying at an exponential rate. Because, you know...quiverfull. O.O

[diet_poison]

Yeah, but they'd have to be ok with re-marrying into the same bloodlines over and over again. Lots of offspring doesn't mean much if your gene pool essentially stays the same size.

(Also, I know some of them don't buy into the lifestyle and escape/leave. Dunno how many, though.)

[a_potato]

I was more being tongue-in-cheek with that statement, heh.

But yeah, there are people who wind up leaving when they grow up (seems like it's mostly women, which makes sense, given how they're viewed and treated within the community). There are forums and blogs out there to share stories and to give support to those who've left/are leaving. No clue what percentage of practitioners they actually represent, however.

[diet_poison]

sorry if I missed the tongue-in-cheek :P I must have gone all biology-geeky on the topic.

Reading those blogs (which I have done in the past) is both horrifying and fascinating. And in the end, I find the best way to have a positive takeaway from them is to be happy for the individuals who have escaped. I can think of one specific story of a woman who escaped from QF which was a very interesting read, and also a story of a man who escaped from a different cult - I think he was one of Fred Phelps' sons, and he got away from the WBO.