Thread by @AlethiaWrites

Discovery #2 in #biblicalparentingexposed: Most Xian parenting books heavily spotlight complementarian marriage roles as starting point/basis for everything that follows, leading to self-perpetuating cycle of hierarchy, authority, family enmeshment & children as 2nd class. 🧵

https://twitter.com/AlethiaWrites/status/1668451175606415360

Consider: "The crown of creation was the holy union of the man and woman...the Bible exalts marriage to the highest level..." pg. 33 (see aforementioned presumptions-authoritatively-presented-without-proof).

And this: "If children were necessary to complete man & woman, God would have created them before making [the declaration that creation was very good]. Therefore, the marriage rel lacks nothing. Woman alone completes man & man alone completes woman."

Setting aside this marriage-dolatry & marginalization of all unmarried ppl let alone single-parents, notice how it immediately relegates children to lesser-humans. Ezzo is stating quite baldly that **Children are not included in God's declaration of "very good."** 😱

From this & their casual interpretation of Gen 1:27-31, they introduce "four principles to *govern all family relationships." pg. 34 What could go wrong?

(Marriage resource recommendations included. 2 of the 4 score red on @sheilagregoire's "Actively harms Women's Sexuality" scorecard; others are likely too outdated to be included).

This is unsurprising given that much of the No Pressure, Parents /s is directed at mothers./end