Babies: Burden or Blessings?

I borrowed this title from the latest Vision Forum e-mail newsletter. In case you do not know about Vision Forum here are its web-links: http://www.visionforumministries.org/ and http://www.visionforum.com/ Vision Forum's main goal is to rebuild the Christian family one household at a time. Their latest newsletter talked about what is going on recently in the world concerning having children or not having children. Nancy Peloski, the Speaker of the House, as part of the $825 billion economic stimulus package wants to include taxpayer-subsidized effort to prevent the birth of more children. Why? She argues that children are bad for the economy. Meanwhile, in Japan there are not enough children. Italy and France are facing similiar situations. There are not enough children to maintain their economies. But what about China and India's population? There seems to be too many people in these countries.

Is there really an overpopulation problem in the world? The homeschool library has a copy of the Handbook on Population by Robert Sassone. This book addresses the myth of overpopulation. Yes, it is a myth. Read this book to find out more.

Whenever a question like this comes up it is always best to check what the Word of God say. To help find what these truths are the SVHE homeschool library does have a useful book. It is titled Be Fruitful and Multiply by Nancy Campbell. Mrs. Campbell uses Scripture to tells us the importance of having children. Another book A Full Quiver by Rick & Jan Hess uses Scripture and includes the practical part of having multiple children. An interesting discussion of the quiverfull movement can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiverfull. Since I have watched this movement the past twenty years I have observed that many Christian families have agreed with this quiverfull concept but instead of having many of their own natural-born children they have adopted other children into their families.

Psalm 127: 3-5
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD:
and the fruit of the womb is his reward.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man;
so are children of the youth.
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them:
they shall not be ashamed,
but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.