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Wanted by the Fertility Police
Crisis Magazine ^
| Mary Walsh
Posted on 10/24/2001 9:08:40 PM PDT by Brian Kopp DPM
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To: proud2bRC
Great article. I think it was posted a while back, but it would be in the archives by now and you can't get to them. Either that or I read it over at Crisis. Can't recall for sure. We only have three and get that reaction already. My family is so certain that we are insane that they don't even dare say anything anymore.
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:14:41 PM PDT
by
patent
To: patent
I searched before posting it but didn't find it. Great article, IMHO. Friends here are expecting their 12th. But in rural red neck south central mountains of PA, you don't make snide remarks to a family that size.
"The children of one's youth are like arrows in a quiver, blessed is the man whose quiver is full."
To: proud2bRC
"Being open to new life and not cooperating with the contraceptive mentality of today's culture makes a Catholic parent a walking sign of contradiction."
I find this an odd statement, considering how very, very few Catholics actually have large families anymore. As a matter of fact, most of the large families I know are protestant homeschooling families. (And I know of some large Catholic homeschooling families, as well.)
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:26:06 PM PDT
by
joathome
To: proud2bRC
You would have had to search the archives too, and they aren't available at the moment. At least I can't get to them, which I guess isn't the same thing.
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:26:07 PM PDT
by
patent
To: proud2bRC
We have met a wonderful family in our neighborhood - they have 6 children plus a mother in law living in their home..... I wonder every day how they manage to do it, but they are one of the nicest families I have ever met....
To: joathome
I find this an odd statement, considering how very, very few Catholics actually have large families anymore. As a matter of fact, most of the large families I know are protestant homeschooling families. (And I know of some large Catholic homeschooling families, as well.)
Depends on what the meaning of
is is, I mean Catholic is.
patent +AMDG
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:27:32 PM PDT
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patent
To: proud2bRC
A friend of mine, age 48, is expecting her 10th - her children range in ages of 23 - 6 - currently.
I'm 44 and I would love to have another!! We have 3 sons - ages 18, 14, and 10.
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:27:50 PM PDT
by
MasonGal
To: MasonGal
..meant to add that the friend of mine who is expecting her 10th - as been Catholic homeschooling for over 13 years now.
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:29:01 PM PDT
by
MasonGal
To: proud2bRC; Wally Cleaver
A friend of mine has eleven. When he worked for me a few years ago his handle was "kids9@____.com" I don't think he changed it.
To: proud2bRC
Nice
To: proud2bRC
If every 'family' waited 'til they could "Afford" a child.......this old world would be a barren planet, in no time.
...which is just what all the 'watermelons' really want -Because they are Commie Red on the inside and Enviro-Green on the outside...)
To: MasonGal
Three home schooled children, desperately hoping for more! They are now 9, 7, 5. Always thought we'd have two more before our "baby" would be 5, but all in God's providence.
To: proud2bRC
Ping from a non-Catholic mom of six, who wouldn't mind more. . .
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:36:44 PM PDT
by
nepdap
To: joathome
As a matter of fact, most of the large families I know are protestant homeschooling familiesI see you haven't met our Catholic home schoolers group yet...
We belong to both the general Christian home school group as well as the Catholic home school group. Likewise we've attended state meeting for both. I gotta admit that at least here the Catholic homeschoolers are out procreating their protestant counterparts ;-)
To: proud2bRC
It's a wonderful article. Now, as for me - as a Catholic, I'm having a hard time with the BC stuff. I have two kids, at 33, and people with large families have a lot more courage than I do. I figure I've been blessed with 2 perfect beauties, I don't want to push my luck. Believe it or not, I got assaulted by the fertility police when I was expecting my 2nd! So I use BC, but it's very important to me that it's ethical BC.
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:46:38 PM PDT
by
edayna
To: proud2bRC
I admire people who can handle having more than a few kids. I'm all for it, as long as they are doing it like this lady- some people *do* just not think about it - have crappy marriages and just keep adding kids because they don't know what else to do.
Anyway, I have three and that's enough for me. I want to do one on one stuff with them, it's already very challenging to find the time. I'm happy with three, and so is my achin' back, to hear that we won't be having any more. Sometimes I feel that longing, but it goes away quickly. :-)
To: proud2bRC
I can see how, once you get to three, the temptation to go on to four is intense. With three the geometry of equitable shares is too complicated.
Like the carpender said to me, "You want it a third of an inch? Awright, show me a third of an inch on this here rule."
To: edayna
there are some wonderful pro-life doctors While we actually do exist, I continually lament how many are not. I currently am serving as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, and refuse to do elective terminations -- the flack I take from my colleagues is huge. I just wish physicians would remember the original oath of hippocrates "I will not procure abortion..."
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posted on
10/24/2001 9:56:14 PM PDT
by
gas_dr
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