The Daughters

In this fourth and final episode, the five women we have followed explain what it took to cause them to leave the Stay at Home Daughter movement and reminiscence on the aspects of the movement they miss and their thoughts on it now looking back in from the outside. The Daughters is an audio documentary exploring the way the Stay at Home Daughter movement - the idea that daughters should never leav...

The women within the Stay at Home Daughter movement explain how career and education was viewed under this ideology. A higher education or a career outside the home was discouraged and considered pointless at best and an instrument of the devil at  worst. The Daughters is an audio documentary exploring the way the Stay at Home Daughter movement - the idea that daughters should never leave the cove...

What were the ideas propelling forward the Stay at Home Daughter movement and who were the leaders? In this episode, we do a deep dive into the theology and philosophies that drove women to pursue a life of protection instead of explore the outside world. The Daughters is an audio documentary exploring the way the Stay at Home Daughter movement - the idea that daughters should never leave the cove...

A wrong view of women? In this episode, five women who grew up as Stay at Home Daughters explain the challenges they experienced developing relationships in the movement. They elaborate on the strict dating requirements of the movement otherwise known as courtship and the influence the leaders (including Bill Gothard & Doug Phillips) of the movement held over families. The Daughters is an audi...

Tiffani shares her story of being a mother that joined the Stay at Home Daughter movement and raised some of her own daughter's in it's principals. She shares her experience of what she describes as the psychological and emotionally damaging repercussions from being in this movement herself and raising her kids in it. To learn more about the Stay At Home Daughter Documentary or get involve...

Elizabeth shares her story of growing up in a family that followed the Stay at Home Daughter principals. After moving out on her own and getting married at a later age, she recalls the path her life could have taken and is thankful that isn't the case. In the end, she says this ideology can be stifling to girls pursuing what they were made for. To learn more about the Stay At Home Daughter Doc...

Autumn Rose shares her story of growing up in a church that followed the Stay At Home Daughter movement philosophies. She shares her experience of eventually going to college, getting married, and her thoughts on the movement now. While Autumn has some hesitations with the way this movement was carried out for herself, she is sympathetic towards the movement and elaborates on how she wishes it to...

Trista Anderson shares her story of growing up in a community that followed the Stay At Home Daughter movement philosophies. She shares the adventures she had there and her journey of eventually leaving.  To learn more about the Stay At Home Daughter Documentary or get involved visit: https://www.thedaughtersdocu.com/ What is the Stay at Home Daughter Movement?  This is one of the  ...

Ruth Harper describes her childhood of growing up in the Stay at Home Daughter movement and how those philosophies affected her as she eventually left it behind to pursue college and a career. In her opinion, a lot of the movement is influenced by romanticizing the pre-industrial revolution time era. To learn more about the Stay At Home Daughter Documentary or get involved visit: https://www.theda...

Rebekah Hargraves of "Hargraves Home and Hearth" explains her time in the patriarchal Stay at Home Daughter movement. She discusses her previous involvement with this philosophy - including her prior position that women should not pursue a career or education. Rebekah shares her journey of leaving and why she now speaks against these ideas that consumed her teenage years.     You ca...

Emily Elizabeth Anderson was raised in Bill Gothard's Institute for Basic Life Principles which she describes as a cult. She recounts her story of living under the philosophy that all women should stay under male headship until marriage. She recalls what it was like to be told you could not get a career or be independent as a woman. Walk through Emily's journey as she gets a drivers license at the...

Martha recounts her time as a Stay at Home Daughter. She recalls her experience getting married at 17 years old after a short 2 months of courtship. She remembers a time when her husband was in a mental institute, she was trying to find employment while being unable to pay rent or find childcare for 4 children under the age of 6.  Martha recalls the moral dilemma she faced as a Stay at Home D...

A trailer for the upcoming audio documentary "The Daughters"  What is the Stay at Home Daughter Movement? This is one of the topics this project will be pursuing in more detail but the basic premise that women even well into adulthood should not leave their father’s house, but stay under his household and authority. This is often included with the idea that women do not need to, nor should th...