Stop Paying Other People to Raise Your Family w/ Shawn and Beth Dougherty
Sword&Spade
Jason Craig talks with Shawn and Beth Dougherty, who bought the worst land in Ohio, spent years growing food on it, and now live in a house their own children built. They cover why college stopped looking like a necessary rite of passage, why a young couple should start out poor, and how a family takes back the work it has proxied out to industry. Weddings, funerals, food, and heat all come home in the process. In This Episode, We Cover: * Why Sean taught theater for 25 years as a means to an end, and how the whole arrangement was aimed at land and summers with the kids * Why half their kids went to college and half didn't, and why neither path counted as a necessary rite of passage * What a marriage misses when it goes straight from daddy's castle to hubby's castle without a season of having nothing but each other * How the homeschool world became a matriarchy, and what happens when dad comes home and doesn't fit * Why the natural economy gives back more than you take, and how the cash economy inserts itself between a family and the Creator Resources Mentioned: * Fraternus * One-Cow Revolution by Shawn and Beth Dougherty * The Independent Farmstead by Shawn and Beth Dougherty * The Liturgy of the Land by Jason Craig and Thomas Van Horn Chapters: * 00:00: Introduction * 06:02: A Lifetime of Choosing the Alternative * 13:06: College Is Not a Necessary Rite of Passage * 20:15: Start Out Poor * 32:05: The Homeschool Matriarchy and the Absent Father * 40:18: The Family as a Productive Economic Unit * 44:15: The Wedding Industry * 51:47: What We've Proxied Out and How to Take It Back * 59:24: Scarcity in Banking, Abundance in Creation * 1:09:20: Human Scale JOIN 2500+ MEN READING SERIOUS, YET ACCESSIBLE ESSAYS ON VIRTUE, CULTURE, AND LIVING WELL: https://fraternus.org/sword-and-spade/ Produced by Saint Kolbe Studios.