[TestifyToLove]

The movement claims that girls are training for PhDs in Home Education, at home, at the knee of their mother who is the expert on running a home.

So yes, some of these girls spend time learning complicated things, starting cottage industries, and preparing for wifely submission and motherhood.

However, they are supposed to shape all of their training as serving their family, and specifically at the knees not of their mother, the one who is actually a homemaker, but their FATHER.

The movement VF and others like them have entered now is this concept that girls are to be helpmeets in training by answering TO THEIR FATHER in all that they do.

Jasmine Baucham is very heavily involved in academic pursuits. Her father holds a PhD and see education as important, but doesn't want her leaving the house to earn it. She might be earning an English degree online, or she's putting herself through the rigorous process that would typically earn someone a Bachelor's in English--framed and sculpted by her father.

Jasmine is VERY unusual that she is pursuing academic pursuits, and even she won't come out and confess whether her pursuits are formal or not.

The temptation of this concept is that those in power leading the movement are putting their daughters out there as strong, exemplary characters of young women who ARE continuing education and pursuits while waiting to find husbands. However, by their own admission, every daughter's development after she graduates from her homeschooling will depend entirely upon the whims of her own father--and they don't believe there is ANY wrong choice a father can make in deciding what HE feels is best for his daughter. She is to be at his side, physically, emotionally and spiritually because he is supposed to be training her on how to be a submissive wife. He trains her by having an inappropriate emotional enmeshment with her, but requiring the intimacy from her that she would then give to a husband after he trains her.

This is the nitty gritty no one wants to see. Even if her father doesn't sexually abuse her, he is going to spiritually abuse her. Every bit of the intimacy they are so freaked out about a young woman giving to a man not her husband, they demand she give to her FATHER...until the time he transfers that authority and intimacy to the man he approves of as her husband.

This stuff is so sick and peverse that the more you disect it to try to grasp what they are saying, the sicker to your stomach you feel and the more shocked that people aren't seeing this clearly. In WHAT alter-universe would you EVER want a young woman to surrender her spirit and initimacy to her father--to the point that young women getting married in this movement have talked about their struggle to submit to their husbands when his vision and desires differ from her father's...the ones she was trained for.

And, BJU doesn't fall under these new ideas. HOWEVER, they are Patriarchal without the SAHD movement, and because they have diverged from the current trends, they are a dying institution now. They are losing students, enrollment and funds. They just laid off massive amounts of staff and are talking about having to close their doors. In comparision. Liberty University saw this movement coming and converted nearly all their programs to online options, and consequently are now the LARGEST private university in this nation. If Dad approves of higher education, then a daughter may comfortably and safely pursue that education via Liberty from home. However, she only gets that opportunity in the first place if her father believes women should be educated. If he doesn't, then she will be barred from further education, regardless of her desires and dreams.