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To: little jeremiah

So how do you feel about people having children that they cannot afford to financially care for?


206 posted on 06/10/2010 7:13:37 PM PDT by Grunthor (Getting married, T minus 16 days.)
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To: Grunthor

“People” have friends, family, church congregations, and so on to help them when they need it. A gentleman I knew only slightly once put a check for $500 in my pocket at Mass. And we have paid the rent for a family whose father was out of work.

As a separate issue, “can’t afford” is a very flexible concept. People have the strangest ideas of what they and their children “need.” Practically every family today has more space and more amenities than my parents did when I was a girl, and unimaginable luxury compared to what my grandparents considered adequate.


207 posted on 06/10/2010 7:23:13 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Be nice to venomous snakes. They only want to eat a mouse!)
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To: Grunthor

Conception can be often avoided if necessary with care and knowledge by natural methods - meaning, avoiding sex when the woman is fertile.

That said, sometimes conception takes place.

People who want to please God would then accept the new life as a gift. I suppose adoption would be an option but it’s hard to imagine a husband and wife giving up a baby for adoption because “they couldn’t afford” to raise the chil.

Many people raise children with very little money - what some wealthier people would think was not near enough - and have happy families.

Cannot afford to care for is very relative.

Children need loving parents much, much more than they need the fanciest toys and gizmos or stylish clothes.


213 posted on 06/10/2010 8:25:52 PM PDT by little jeremiah
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