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Good link! Here’s a good one for youThere is truth in this man’s statement.
I’ve been attending a male leadership programme for Catholics called “That Man is You”, and a few weeks back we talked about the negative impact of modern ideas of family and society on the family and on society as a whole. Modern secular education leads to decreasing birth (and in turn population) rates - as does increasing economic status.
Here is an outline of one of their talks. They also have parts of videos on the Paradisus Dei site as well. I recommend my fellow men - especially ones with young families - go check it out. It’s very enlightening.
Modern education in America and Europe are ultimately intended to boost the economy and make the Western World prosperous by convincing people that individual advancement and economic prosperity, are key to success. This causes women and men both to seek education and careers before children. The problem? Women and men are at their peak fertilities in their early to mid 20s. It sharply decreases thereafter. “Career” women may not seek children until they are in their 30s, when fertility is sharply on the decline. Therefore, there is little wonder that there are fewer children today than there were in yesteryear.
Let me say, however, that I have no problem with a woman pursuing a secular career outside of motherhood. But I do think that the time for one’s career should AFTER one has children. Children are our future, and without them no society can survive. The most valuable resource on this Earth is people. A country with rich farmland or massive deposits of metal is useless if there’s no one there to till the soil or dig mines.
We are losing people at a rapid rate, simply because we are not meeting the population replacement rate - 2.1 children per 2 people. In America our childbirth rate is around 1.6 children per 2 people, and in Europe it is on average 1.4. Unless we turn the tide of things and educate our children righteously, humanity will die out for the stupidest reason of them all: because he didn’t make any offspring.
Once again, career women are not bad women. But being a good, Christian mother is a higher calling and a better thing for society than even the most influential of politicians or the wealthiest of billionaires. You cannot take riches or political influence to Heaven with you. When you are dead they are irrelevant, unless you used them for God’s greater glory.
Even then, the mother does the service of producing more politicians, workers, preachers, and humans of all walks, and she teaches them how to be human. The parent teaches their children what it means to be human. More than any politician or businessman ever could, the parents set their children’s course in life by their example.
And that is why I will not look for a woman and have children of my own until I understand how to raise children. (I’m 19 anyway. I’ve got time.)