Quiverfull

Quiverfull
Classification	Christian
Theology	Evangelical Christian
Region	United States Canada Australia United Kingdom New Zealand

Quiverfull is a movement among some conservative fundamentalist Christian couples, chiefly in the United States, but there are some adherents in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. The movement sees children as a blessing from God and it promotes compulsory procreation, abstaining from all forms of birth control, (including natural family planning) and sterilization. Adherents are known as quiver full, full quiver, quiverfull-minded, or simply QF Christians. Some have referred to the Quiverfull position as Providentialism, while other sources have simply referred to it as a manifestation of natalism. One 2006 estimate put the number of families subscribing to this philosophy as in "the thousands to low tens of thousands".

As birth-control methods advanced during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many conservative Christian movements issued official statements against their use, citing their incompatibility with biblical beliefs and ideals.

In addition, there are those contend that Quiverfull's "internal growth" model is a manifestation of a broader trend reflected in such groups as ultra-Orthodox Jews, Orthodox Calvinists of the Netherlands and Laestadian Lutherans of Finland. The former may also be a case of a manifestation of a movement of opinion within some ethnic, linguistic, religious, regional, or other identifiable groups who have felt concern about their continued existence for historical and/or other reasons. Such philosophies and groups are diverse amongst themselves—being found in all segments and sectors of the political spectrum—and usually represent, to varying extents, the diversity within their group. The manifestations of such movements and opinion are everything from comparatively high rates of in-group marriage being applauded and gently suggested to more explicit calls for endogamy such as is the case with the Druze to concerns expressed by Northern Ireland Protestants about a higher birth rate amongst Catholics to Decree 770 by Nicolae Ceaușescu's government in Romania concerning contraception and other population topics as part of the local variant of North Korean Juche.

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