Things Seemed Perfect

Despite the family being quite large, something highly peculiar in these modern times, especially since taking care of one child is already difficult, what more 13. And in stranger circumstances, David and Louise would even reenact their wedding, and more than once. They would even take photos of their family with everyone in matching outfits, especially when they would go on family trips, which didn’t happen often. But to everyone looking in on their lives, people just thought they were a really happy, close-knit family, but truly, that was the furthest thing from the truth.

Quiverfull Movement

David and Louise were practicing Pentecostals who were also believers in the Quiverfull movement, which was basically a Christian belief system that one shouldn’t use contraception, hence, the reason why they had 13 children between the ages of 2 to 29. But nothing that they were doing to their children could be considered right in the eyes of any deity. In fact, what was happening behind closed doors was truly abhorrent.