STRONGWILLED is a multimedia project exploring the personal and political impacts of Religious Authoritarian Parenting.

Since the 1970s, religious authoritarian ideologies have fueled the rise of Christian nationalism in the U.S., with parenting practices playing a key role in shaping authoritarian tendencies. These approaches have left lasting psychological effects on the children raised under them.

Our project seeks to understand the connections between these parenting approaches and today’s political climate while helping individuals recover from their personal impacts. By validating the experiences of children taught from infancy to prioritize obedience—to God, parents, the church, and other authorities—we aim to shed light on how religion was used in these authoritarian frameworks to further control children, and to ensure these children would carry on the religious, political, and racialized identities of their parents for the rest of their lives.

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