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children are produced. But
they should
be
wanted, loved
and planned for, just as God
is adding members to his
Family.
That's the way
it
ought
to
be,
at least.
The first act of sharing
is
love. The result of t hat
love is a husband and wife
devoted to each other, car–
ing
for each other,
sharing
with each other.
If
husbands and wives
became parents in that envi–
ronment of sharing love,
they would trl!IY plan for
their children. They would
plan how many, and plan t o
give them all the love and
time humanly possible. This
is the ultimate expression of
love and sharing.
It
would
be
a different
world
if
such were the case.
Use Wisdom in Planning
With God's example
to
follow, married couples should
plan their own families. But in family planning there are
many factors to consider.
In times past, families tended
to
be quite large, especially
farm families. Children all grew up working and contributing
to the farm before setting out on their own.
Then times changed. The Great Depression of the 1930s
made life much more difficult. In those trying t imes, many new
families were smaller than families at the tum of the century.
Then came World War II. There was a terrible loss of
life- especially of young men. The post-war years saw what
has come to be known as a "baby boom." Since then, world
population has skyrocketed.