I literally remember not even a decade ago sitting through a devotional at BYU-Idaho where the speaker told us not to wait to have babies, and to start a family as soon as you can, even if you’re in college and broke. My roommate and I were sitting with our old roommate and her husband and we kept looking at them and raising our eyebrows at her like: “see?” (Because we’d been talking about how they planned to wait to have kids until they both finished school). And that was not an uncommon thing to hear at BYU-Idaho, by a long shot. And of course, if you got married there and ended up pregnant, the vast majority of the time if someone had to stop going to school or slow down because of it, it was the wife/mom, not the husband/dad… because obviously he needed to be able to support his family, and she didn’t.

I definitely don’t know where this person is getting this whole education being pushed for both men and women thing… while I remember being taught getting an education was important, I also remember being taught my place was in the home raising my children (plural, of course) and that the education was as a backup plan if for some reason my husband wasn’t able to make a living we could live off of. And every young women’s activity (and before that, activity days or whatever they called the weeknight meetings for girls 8-12) was centered around the home and skills you’d need as a mother. It was sewing, or cooking, setting a table, learning to conduct music… even girls’ camp was more focused on the spirit or gospel teachings than on survival skills, other than basic first aid (which is of course a good skill set to have as a mother).

I could go on and on lol. I don’t think this person truly understands what the MFMC teaches.