Hello all, I was wondering- As a Quiverfull Mommy, I am often met with strange looks from fellow christians when i tell them about my beliefs! Does no one still believe in letting the Lord decide your path in life?
Not really. Certain parts of the world are overpopulated. None of them are America. If anyone should scale back the number of children they have, it's them. America would have to embrace quiverfull on a nationwide basis for at least two entire generations to even be compared with other places in the world.But the world is over populated
How can we determine that the world is overpopulated? What would be the appropriate population then?. Nothing wrong with having kids if you want them . But the world is over populated and I figured out that my paternal grandfather only had 2 living children . They had 5 children (my sisters and first cousin )in total . I’ve got 4 descendants, my sisters and first cousin have 9) and that when the numbers start climbing. 19 of those people are still alive .
I don't have a particularly large family, but I am often met with disbelief and tut-tuts of 'having your hands full'. Culturally, the West has shifted to a one or two kids standard, and anything more, such as my three, have become noteworthy. Children are a blessing, and I feel their relegation to a luxury is one of the saddest aspects of modern life.Hello all, I was wondering- As a Quiverfull Mommy, I am often met with strange looks from fellow christians when i tell them about my beliefs! Does no one still believe in letting the Lord decide your path in life?
The factors around fertility are actually quite complex, and we have good data for the last century or so. Social stress is associated with early menarche (starting your period), and growing up in a single parent home is too, independantly thereof. Excess nutrition in childhood, but pre-natal starvation, are also associated with early menarche. Urbanisation also shifted fertility patterns.My great grandmother had 15 and my grandmother ( her daughter) had one . The jockeying for attention, pseudo-parenting by the older kids , and the bullying by the older kids sorta explains that . Not one of the 15 had more than 3. They didn’t like growing up being part of large family. My great grandmother would be sick with each of those 15 pregnancies and she was stuck with that because she couldn’t refuse her husband. “Good” women didn’t practice birth control back then ( late 19th century) She probably would have if it hadn’t been illegal. I suspect that my grandmother did as she was a teenager/ young adult in the roaring 20s
Hello all, I was wondering- As a Quiverfull Mommy, I am often met with strange looks from fellow christians when i tell them about my beliefs! Does no one still believe in letting the Lord decide your path in life?
Many of the early contributors here (like us) are now empty-nesters. We met with the same resistance (secular & sectarian) when we were having kids in the 1980s & '90s. Our youngest was born in 2000.Hello all, I was wondering- As a Quiverfull Mommy, I am often met with strange looks from fellow christians when i tell them about my beliefs! Does no one still believe in letting the Lord decide your path in life?
. Nothing wrong with having kids if you want them . But the world is over populated and I figured out that my paternal grandfather only had 2 living children . They had 5 children (my sisters and first cousin )in total . I’ve got 4 descendants, my sisters and first cousin have 9) and that when the numbers start climbing. 19 of those people are still alive .
Debate about contraception is not allowed in this sub-forum.Nothing wrong with having all the children you can afford. They are expensive!