Part 2 Like the Twelve Tribes, the Quiverfull believe that by raising and educating children correctly, a mother will help to hold back an ever-encroaching state. The movement draws upon articles and blogs that reinforce this message. For instance, one popular blog asserts,

As all good totalitarians know it is mothers—specifically, devoted and self-sacrificing mothers—who gum up the works of statist control in a society. Her crime is forging bonds of love, the self-sacrificing kind that ...