Mary Pride (born 27 August 1955[1]) is an American author and magazine producer on homeschooling and topics from a theologically conservative stance within Christian fundamentalism.
She is best known for her women’s roles and homeschooling publications, while she has also written on parental rights and the need to shelter children from what she has deemed "corrupting influences" from modern culture.
[13] In Pride's first book, The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality, she chronicled her journey away from what she argued were feminist and anti-natal ideas of happiness, within which she had lived as an activist before her conversion to fundamentalist Christianity in 1977.
She described her discovery of happiness surrounding what she felt was the Biblically mandated role of wives and mothers as bearers of children and workers in the home under the authority of a husband.
Pride asserted that Christian couples should not attempt to limit the number of children they bear or to space them out in any way, arguing that God Himself would be sovereign over family planning: There is an alternative to scheming and plotting how many babies to have and when to have them.
John and Sheila Kippley in their The Art of Natural Family Planning describes how representatives of the organization contacted Pride to express concerns over her position.
[19] Mitchell Stevens, a Hamilton College sociologist, has criticized Pride for exhibiting feminist values in her lifestyle much more than in how she writes and lives.