* Taken from the Latin and Greek root word "patr" meaning
father and the word "centric" meaning "situated at or near the center."
* The term was specifically coined to describe the philosophy of family life promoted within some extreme Christian and Reformed homeschooling communities that teaches that God gives a "calling" in life to only
men, specifically fathers, and that the purpose of the wife and
children is to fulfill the
father's calling.
* Those who embrace this position believe that it changes only when a
son assumes his own household responsibilities by taking a wife or a daughter is given in marriage when she can then leave her
father's home, her new purpose being to fulfill the calling of her husband.
* Though there are varying degrees of this taught within different groups, the
father is sometimes described as the "prophet, priest, and king" of the home and there are other common ideals that often accompany patriocentricity, such as militant fecundity, family integrated church, neo-feudalism, as well as neo-agrarianism.