“Impoverished”? Far from it. In fact people who have kids are constantly impoverished and struggling with money. Here’s the atrocious part, the women who do decide to have children go back to work before their babies have dried umbilical cords. Why would anyone plan for months for a baby and then leave it at the tender age of 3 months to complete strangers which will never nurture that child in the same maternal way? It’s got to be traumatizing for these infants that families “so called” planned. If people want to have kids, then plan on one parent staying at home for the next 7 years, having children is a committment. No, the primary purpose of marriage is not to overpopulate the earth with daycare and latch-key kids, it’s just wrong and hypocritical. And good luck getting your career started after 7 yrs as a displaced homemaker, as you will have no current work skills.
I will quote Mother Theresa
“The spiritual poverty of the Western World is much greater than the physical poverty of our people,” she told me, as the fan whirred above us, trying to alleviate the unbearable heat of that Indian city.Emptiness
“You, in the West, have millions of people who suffer such terrible loneliness and emptiness. They feel unloved and unwanted. These people are not hungry in the physical sense, but they are in another way. They know they need something more than money, yet they don’t know what it is.
“What they are missing, really, is a living relationship with God.”
Mother Teresa cited the case of a woman who died alone in her home in Australia. Her body lay for weeks before being found. The cats were actually eating her flesh when the body was discovered. “To me, any country which allows a thing like that to happen is the poorest. And people who allow that are committing pure murder. “Our poor people would never allow it.”
And the teeming millions of the poor of the Third World have a lesson to teach us in the affluent West, Mother Teresa declared.
“They can teach us contentment,” she said, her leathery face gently smiling. “That is something you don’t have much of in the West.
“I’ll give you an example of what happened to me recently. I went out with my sisters in Calcutta to seek out the sick and dying.
Gratitude
“We picked up about 40 people that day. One woman, covered in a dirty cloth, was very ill and I could see it. So I just held her thin hand and tried to comfort her. She smiled weakly at me and said, ’Thank you.’ Then she died. “She was more concerned to give to me than to receive from me. I put myself in her place and I thought what I would have done. I am sure I would have said, ’I am dying, I am hungry, call a doctor, call a Father, call somebody.’ “But what she did was so beautiful. I have never seen a smile like that. It was just perfect. It was just a heavenly gift. That woman was more concerned with me than I was with her.”