Please explain. NFP does that; Luke (DH) doesn’t want to use NFP because he believes that God won’t give us a kid that we can’t raise and I’ll be breastfeeding anyway. (I’m pregnant with our first child) Parents have a huge responsibility: raise your kids Catholic, teach them to love and serve God and others…
What part of my answer didn’t you understand? If you are in a unmarried, troubled or abusive relationship–don’t bring kids into the middle of the chaos. If you have erratic mental or emotional problems–don’t procreate until you are stable. If you can’t afford to buy groceries, pay the rent, are in more debt than you can manage, don’t have $/insurance for health care and/or require govenment assistance to meet your most basic needs–don’t have kids until you are able to support them. NFP can be employed for these, most serious situations so that inattention to fertility or selfish desire do not trump your responsibility to the child you create. Clearer?
DH and I have no income and the US government helps us buy a few groceries; preborn Baby and I have health insurance through the state of Kansas. I’m certain that there are many families worldwide who are much poorer than mine. Thank God we aren’t in debt. Alleluia!
We conceived our child before DH withdrew from college at the end of the winter semester. Our last job was his work-study job at the college. As I’m pregnant and the doctor told me to stay off my feet last Sunday, I can’t job-hunt. I intend to do all that I can in the way of writing articles and submitting them for income. I’m unable to work. DH has been job-hunting since January; he’s applied at almost every fast-food restaurant in town and all the computer places in town. He applied at Wal*Mart and got them to tell him that they would call him back about four times; they haven’t even given him an interview. (He is qualified for most computer jobs and he’s a hard worker.) We appreciate all the prayers we can get; our friends and family have been praying for us for months. There’s a Catholic charity in town that gave us baby clothes for our preborn child and friends and family have given us maternity clothes. We are learning to be thrifty and God is teaching us to be totally dependent on Him and to be grateful for all that we have (running water, microwave, fridge, stove, oven, faith, love, friends, family, etc.). Does that answer your question?
Thank you so much for your kind words. God has blessed us a lot. DH will tell you that I’m not always an optimist. I thank God for such a wonderful husband every day. He makes me laugh every day. Humor is essential in every situation and I’ve learned to laugh at myself…I don’t know how I’d survive if I didn’t.