This is an interesting idea, I copied the whole post here(It's also linked in the title) because it's a short one. What he says makes sense to me, anyone agree?
Large families are best birth control
Posted in Catholic and Protestant, Church and state, Democrats, Faith and Politics, Gay Marriage, Marriage, Republicans by admin at June 20th, 2008
The news from a Massachusetts high school is that as many as seventeen female students may have had a pact that resulted in their becoming pregnant while in school. There is a flurry of response to this from a psychologist who suggested that the girls wanted to know they were human in a techno world to a Planned Parenthood type who railed at the predominantly Catholic school district for declining to provide birth control in the school.
I won’t bother raising the question of hoe school dispensed birth control pills would have helped girls who made a pact to become pregnant.
My wife Becky, mother of our eight children, suggested this explanation: that girls who grow up in small families with few or no other children, might become pregnant for two reasons - one, because there aren’t enough babies around. They desire to be close to a baby, like most people do. They long for that real human connection with a baby that they can share their lives with and that share some of their characteristics. Two, they don’t understand the extent of responsibility having a child is - precisely because there are so few babies around them. So, in their minds having a baby is like getting a puppy or kitten.
Becky went on to say that she thinks large families are the best teen contracpetive. First, the girls have babies around them, not their own, their little brothers and sisters. She was number two in a family of five and she had three babies beneath her to cuddle, play with and practice being the mommy of. The genius was that she could hand him back to her mother when she ran out of ideas or was overwhelmed. By the time she’s in her teens and could get pregnant, her older siblings are married and having baby nieces and nephews. Secondly, she knows first hand the mamouth resposnsibility that having a child is. She observes her mom (and Dad) working long days, sleepless nights, harried schedules, sickness, diapers, puke and all the rest that comes with the glorious gift of human life.
Our girls each have seven siblings, and all but one has cared for babies (and she’ll hopefully have a few nieces and nephews to take care of). They’re high in demand as baby sitters in our neighborhood and at church. They each know what a wonderful joy, and what hard work a baby is.
Yesterday one of our teen-aged daughters said, “I want to have babies, but I want to get married first. And before that, I want to finish my education and explore the world and do the things I want to do. Then, I’ll start looking at getting married and then I’ll have my children.”
I told Becky that she has really great insight: a large family is the best teen contraceptive there is.
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