Society makes you feel that it's not OK to stay at home with your kids, or to teach them at home, or-- I don't know. You feel, like, this pull. And the fact that--

I guess, kind of a good thing for me was that I was an older mother. I was older when I got married. So I had already had a career and that kind of thing. So I had already done that. But still, you just feel that pull of you should be working, working towards a career, not really embracing being a woman, being a mother. And the Church just really celebrates that. They celebrate you as a woman, as a mother. They encourage you and teach you and nurture you-- the other women in the Church-- to really do, really, basically, what our Father in Heaven really wants us to do.

Debbie Jo and her husband, Doug, live in Charlottesville, Virginia, with their three children. Doug and Debbie Jo were baptized into The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in June 2002.