Well, that's fascinating thank you. I wonder if every religion reduces to strategies for dealing with parents.

The bizarre feature of the Elliot/Ecuador drama is that it's bound up in Elisabeth Elliot's conversion to Catholicism. She propped up Jim as a Catholic saint, writing his hagiography.

She seems to have formally converted to Catholicism. along the way.

As you note, her brother Tom Howard was a more public convert to Catholicism—and like you their parents were anti-Catholic missionaries! So there was violation of their parents involved in the process.