Pro-Life News

The Demographic Winter of Our Discontent

By Carmon Friedrich / The Backwater Report
There is always a lot of discussion if not angst about family size, and now we even hear arguments about whether or not all married couples ought to have children. More people are boldly saying what no people dared to say before: "we don't even like children, so we’ve decided to remain childless." I've heard of some missions organizations limiting the number of children they allow their missionaries to have, and while more career missionaries appear to be keeping their families together and are getting support to homeschool their children, there is still the unspoken implication in some Christian circles that children get in the way of real ministry and that if you are "called" to serve God you need to be careful not to encumber yourself with too many of those little inconveniences. And yes, there are some Christians now who claim that God has not given them the gift of parenthood, and not because He has providentially prevented them from conceiving. They just don't want children. Read more...

Posted by Editor at February 18, 2008 05:49 AM