Why Our Society Must Promote the Advantages of Having Children Again.
“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children .” Charles Darwin “Children are a heritage from the Lord…” Psalms 127: 3-5 I was in a discussion with a small group of people a while back in which the topic of marriage and family ideals came up. One young woman said her goal was, upon graduating college, marriage and having a large family. A young man, influenced by environmentalism, said that maybe his not having children would benefit earth. The woman noted she had studied the topic and that the “overpopulation myth” was more propaganda than reality. She presented her position quite well, but I doubt she converted him. And no wonder since the idea that we should see childbirth as a bad thing is firmly institutionalized in western culture since the early 1970s. No wonder the birthrate has plummeted to record lows. Ironically, there are people of influence in international bodies, academia and environmentalist groups that, de...