When Strangers Told Me My Family Was Too Big
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Father of sixJuly 13, 2023
China's one child policy: how well has that been working for them ?
Debbi M.July 12, 2023
I was a freshman in college, and read Zero Population also. I questioned many things about this book vs. the Lord's' commandments, and I also had to wonder in my mind to what I saw as two diverging opinions. We had five children, even though people look askance at our family. Interesting to now see our dwindling population in nearly all "civilized" countries. This was a great article, and the author's experiences were worse than mine!
KatrinaJuly 12, 2023
This is a wonderfully written article. Thank you for it. I, too, believe in babies, and I, too, believe in fidelity within marriage and abstinence before marriage. Thank you for boldly declaring the truth! As one who has wanted a baby all her life and has never been able to conceive, I mourn my heart out for our precious little ones who are aborted. A society that kills their unborn is in real trouble. God help us!
Steven HuntJuly 12, 2023
My wife (and sometimes me) was also the brunt of misinformed activists back in the 1970's as she and I started our family giving birth to 5 boys from 1974 - 1980. We now have 7 children and 30 grandchildren. We lived then in Southern California. She was regularly ridiculed in public with unthinkable "solutions" to her "problem" (pregnancy). Thank you for this powerful retrospective on an evil dogma that arose many years ago. It is a strong lesson for us today as other popular philosophies appear.
Boanerges RubalcavaJuly 12, 2023
Once, somebody asked me, how many children do you have? SIX, was my answer. Then he told me, so, you did not planned them? Of course I planned them but I failed, was my remark, I planned 12 but I only had SIX
MahonriMJuly 12, 2023
Several years ago, a friend who had several children had her home picketed by Planned Parenthood.
Beth TJuly 12, 2023
I had not heard of this book and am deeply grateful for your exps & firm faith in the Lord’s plan for His children. Thank you!!!
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