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Should one have children? The following are a number of things
to consider:
- You will be forced to place them in the modern school
system. Is that system acceptable to you?
- They require a lot of work, effort and sacrifice. Years of
it. Are you really sure you want all the work and
sacrifice that will be required?
- A home without them may have peace, order and harmony.
Children bring noise and confusion to a home.
- A husband and wife have lots of privacy and time to
themselves if they have no children. With children there
is little privacy.
- Children are the source of a lot of disagreements and
arguments between husband and wife. They put a lot of
stresses on a marriage.
- Children are independent beings with wills of their own.
They may be willful and not go in the directions you wish.
- There is a chance they will be born with handicaps or
disabilities, physical or mental, that you and they will
have to deal with.
- We live in a corrupt culture, a culture with evil values
and ways, and children are very susceptible to peer
pressure. The odds of them taking a bad road are very
great.
- We live in a very complicated society that places a lot of
demands and expectations on people. Life can be
frustrating and confusing. Are you really sure you are
doing a person a favor by bringing him into this modern
world?
- Can you adequately prepare them to meet life and cope with
it? Education is the pathway to success in this
complicated, technological society and colleges are very
expensive these days. Can you afford the cost?
- Would you make a good parent? Do you have things
sufficiently together yourself to provide good guidance
for a child? Do you have the sureness of yourself and
emotional stability and maturity for the job?
- It costs a considerable amount of money to raise a child.
Can you afford it? A paycheck may be ample to support two
people yet be marginal for more than two. If there is not
enough money to stretch it can be a cause of arguments and
strife between husband and wife, put a lot of strain on
the marriage, and possibly destroy it.
Feb 1987
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