Posted on 01/03/2005 8:31:56 AM PST by qam1
I don't understand that, but I hope things go well for you in your life.
He most assuredly has...five fold! LOL
God Bless you as well. :)
Best response on this thread!
Bring it on! 8-)
Seriously, when my sister came over our house for Christmas she was greeted by my mother-in-law with, "egg nog gives me gas." My sister looked a little surprised and said, "Merry Christmas!"
Yeah but they only do it in one generation.
My mother-in-law is an "old lady" who has lived in BOTH
Az and Fla.(currently in FLA) --the rest of the family is in Illinois and NJ, but her eldest son lives a few miles from her in Ft. Lauderdale. Currently her biggest problem is her boyfriend from "the complex" not wanting committment
and possibly finding out she's 87, when he's 77. High school all over again .
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that they are net contributors to society, even over the long run.
My life and my husbands life, our wants and desires, is our highest priority, yes. Your priority of raising children is really about your desires too, and there is nothing wrong with that. Feel good about it. People love raising kids, or sometimes decide not to, because it is ~their~ desire to live that life. Neither choice is an illness. It's just people living their shot at the life of their choosing is all.
One of the more popular personalized license plate holders in the state of Florida..usually seen on BIG RV's..says' "I'm spending my children's inheritence"
BTW, you ignored the much more serious part of my post, and focused on the part you could slam me about. Don't think I didn't notice.
Willful exclusion of children is grounds for an anullment.
Willful exclusion of children (Canon 1101, sec. 2)Regarding natural marriage, I found this:You or your spouse married intending, either explicitly or implicitly, to deny the other's right to sexual acts open to procreation.
Traditionally speaking, the primary purpose of marriage is the generation and nurturing of offspring; the second purpose is the mutual help of spouses, and the third is the remedy for concupiscence.1 Even before marriage was perfected by grace in the Sacrament of Matrimony, God called His people to love and serve Him and each other in the married state. The intimate community of life and love which constitutes the married state has been established by the Creator and endowed by Him with its own proper laws . . . God Himself is the author of marriage. 2Marriage is the natural, indissoluble union, perfected by the Sacrament, between one man and one woman directed towards the purpose of preserving the human race by generating and raising children. Marriage is also ordered to the mutual help of spouses and the remedy for sexual desire. This definition of marriage as a natural institution can be arrived at by common sense. Nature implants in men and women an instinct that impels them to seek the companionship of marriage and in this companionship, husband and wife are able to hope for help and an easing of their physical discomforts as they get older.3
Sadly, in my town, there are an awful lot of people who are so consumed by living the parenthood script that I doubt they even remember their childrens' names. Just as a few people who are parents castigate the childless, there are also parents who feel "it is all about THEM".
"Well, if you have priorities in life that would seriously conflict with having children, I would have to say that it's probably best to not have them."
I agree.
"It's not nearly as disruptive as they think it is...unless you are a complete party animal."
As a mother, I'd have to disagree with that. Having children is disruptive and in my case, I'd say that is good. Once my son was born, friends and parties were forced to the back of the line. Suddenly, my life and the life of my husband were no longer about us....it was about our son and doing right by him. It's a huge undertaking when having kids and most don't realize that until they have kids of there own.
I am not Catholic or bound to Catholic custom, but your example is of a couple who are not of the same mind, not those couples who mutually agree.
I suppose you are right. I guess I just don't think of kids as a disruption, per se. It's just a shift.
Or chaos, perhaps. :) LOL
That's always been my favorite license plate motto.
kids ain't the distraction..now, grandchildren...
Debt? Like what kind?
hate relying on government schools for education - I sent my kids to private school as long as I could. I do not think a cent of government money should be spent on day care, including head start. In fact, I wish there was no such thing as a government school, beginning with preschool all the way through university.
It's gonna be a long while before I get the pleasure of grandkids. *sigh*
I get an inkling, though, from being an aunt! :)
Run the clock ahead a few years on France and you get a Muslim nation. Why? Muslims have babies, the French don't.
Just because you don't like the truth does not make it any less true.
If you want to say "After me, the deluge" that is your right, and I never proposed taking it away.
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