your way leads to kids being raised by day care workers. a child needs his mom at least until he is 3-4 years old. unless you really believe that God intended for a man to say home and raise an infant so that his wife can go earn a living, then a woman who is open to life–ie, a woman who has kids–can’t have a demanding outside-the-home job.
OK. You first. Go ahead. Keep us up to date on how its going.
I know this because there are women doctors and lawyers. Where is your evidence that women are going against God’s Will by becoming doctors and lawyers? If it was against God’s will why is there a female doctor who happens to be a Saint?
Doesn’t the Catholic Church officially teach married couples need to have a serious reason for putting off kids?
It wasn’t a command…it was a blessing.
This question is open for anyone to answer; I’m unsure how it works in terms whether a married couple can limit procreating the number of kids even though they are able to have more…
OK. You first. Go ahead. Keep us up to date on how its going.
I’ll be rooting for tripplets.
-Tim-
I can think of endless reasons that are serious for putting off having kids: economic, social, psychological, physical, etc.
No, there is no Church teachng that requires women to live out their lives pregnant
There is no required number of children, and no one is required to “try” to get pregnant. Where would you get something like that? Where did you see this that led you to believe the Church calls married women to live out their lives pregnant?One mistake people make in their zeal to follow the Lord is to believe that their particular path is the path that everyone else must follow to be holy.
From what we just said…the church teaches married couples need to have a serious reason for postponing children. Logically it would mean keep having children until you have a serious reason to stop or postpone wouldn’t it?
No, I can’t. Because there is no where written where the Church requires a set amount of children, and does not require spouses to actively try to conceive. The only documentation that I know of is the Catechism and Humane Vitae. The Church teaches that married couples need to have a serious reason for postponing…that is not the same as actively trying to conceive. The Church doesn’t dictate to married couples when to have sex, just that 2 properties are present when they do: the unitive and procreative.
Adam and Eve obeyed! They had lots of children and they multiplied to the point these days that there is major overpopulation in many parts of the world. We can’t feed everyone in the world.
It’s a nice idea but it doesn’t always work out that way. One of the most Catholic countries in the world loyal to the Church is the Philippines. There is absolute dire poverty there with big Catholic families living in tiny hovels, barely able to feed themselves each day and the children having no opportunity to be educated or even dressed properly. Just check out the documentaries based on large urban centres such as Manila - you will be appalled.
Sorry maybe I’m a little slow; here’s the way I would interpret “couples need to have serious reasons for postponing children”
The serious reasons for postponing baby number four might be different than for postponing baby number 1. Postponing baby number four might involve not having enough resources to feed or clothe or house a fourth child. It might involve the capacity of the parents. It might involve external conditions.
What if the wife doesn’t want to stay home and raise kids?
Hang on, you’re saying that everyone else should have lots of kids, why do you have only three?
Women stayed home because they didn’t have a choice, due to men with the neandertal views you hold. My mother had to leave her job when she got married, and she was a primary (elementary) school teacher.
Rubbish.
There is nothing wrong with a woman working at whatever job she wants. If God wants her to have children, she’ll have them.