Why did you have children? - Page 2

#11 07-12-2007, 08:20 AM

To complete our family, and "be fruitful and multiply." Even before becoming a Christian, it was my desire as a woman to become a mother. Now I wish I was able to have 10 more!

Digging4Truth · #12 07-12-2007, 08:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Titus2Mom

To complete our family, and "be fruitful and multiply." Even before becoming a Christian, it was my desire as a woman to become a mother. Now I wish I was able to have 10 more!

I love my kids.

I offer nothing but appreciation for your feeling in this area.

I thank my Good Lord that my wife does not feel this way.

I think that 3 is a wonderful number.

I thought 2 was a wonderful number until about 9 years ago.

Hoovie · #13 07-12-2007, 08:25 AM

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Originally Posted by ForeverBlessed

Love kids....wanted a dozen... said I would settle for six. Had three girls three years in a row and probably would have continued to have kids if God hadn't stepped in and said... "ok, enough now....you're gonna kill yourself" I never did anything temperate.

It is a lot more overwhelming than I ever imagined, but like Ferd... I don't think you ever know/understand love until you have kids.

Yeah, what she said - and that i think it is God's will....

ForeverBlessed · #14 07-12-2007, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Stephen Hoover

Yeah, what she said - and that i think it is God's will....

I think it probably is too.

I later tried for more after an illness, but I was unable to conceive again. I just took it as it was not God's will for me. I wish we still had the big families that they used to.

Ron · #15 07-12-2007, 08:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Ferd

That is probably a better way of saying it. I know I understand the Love of God much better. But I also love my wife more too. I understand my love for my wife better.

something about seeing that baby for the first time...it just changes you.

So true!

Rhoni · #16 07-12-2007, 10:22 AM

None of the categories fit my reasons for wanting children:
1. I wanted to see if my husband and I could really make a baby.
2. I wanted a daughter so that I could have a great relationship with her as I had with my mother and sisters. I also wanted to make my In-laws mad because they wanted me to have a boy [the last to carry on the name].
3. I wanted to have a son because I knew he would love me as my brother loves his sisters and his mother.

I actually wanted three and have always felt a little miffed that the in-laws talked my ex into a vasectomy, but then...I was ever so glad when we divorced and he remarried

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Blessings, Rhoni

P.S. Deal with it...it is the truth!

ILG · #17 07-12-2007, 10:29 AM

I have two children. I always wanted to have 4 or 5 but it didn't work out that way. I had a very hard time physically taking care of the two I have. I would have loved to be one of those people that had a good number of kids. I think family is one of the greatest gifts that God gives us....provided of course that Mom and Dad are both capable and devoted Christian people. Somehow, we seem to have forgotten that children are an heritage of the Lord. I am not at all opposed to birth control....I think that banning it would be a great mistake. However, I'm afraid that the complete availability of it and the total acceptance and EXPECTATION that it WILL be used in our culture is sad. People who have large families are looked at as if there is something wrong with them. I think birth control should be used as a benefit to what we are trying to accomplish in this world and not a detriment. My Mom has 13 brothers and sisters and it is one of the neatest things. Although my Grandmother could have used a little birth control for her sanity. My grandfather, who was a fisherman and left for weeks at a time simply told my grandmother that "God will provide" when she cried asking for a break in having children. But, my mother and her siblings have the greatest gift of each other.

Rhoni · #18 07-12-2007, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ILG

I have two children. I always wanted to have 4 or 5 but it didn't work out that way. I had a very hard time physically taking care of the two I have. I would have loved to be one of those people that had a good number of kids. I think family is one of the greatest gifts that God gives us....provided of course that Mom and Dad are both capable and devoted Christian people. Somehow, we seem to have forgotten that children are an heritage of the Lord. I am not at all opposed to birth control....I think that banning it would be a great mistake. However, I'm afraid that the complete availability of it and the total acceptance and EXPECTATION that it WILL be used in our culture is sad. People who have large families are looked at as if there is something wrong with them. I think birth control should be used as a benefit to what we are trying to accomplish in this world and not a detriment. My Mom has 13 brothers and sisters and it is one of the neatest things. Although my Grandmother could have used a little birth control for her sanity. My grandfather, who was a fisherman and left for weeks at a time simply told my grandmother that "God will provide" when she cried asking for a break in having children. But, my mother and her siblings have the greatest gift of each other.

This is a good post!

I remember having friends with three children and it was always difficult to have them over because of the confusion and the amount of food consumed. They had difficulty socializing with the three children. What I admired most about this couple was the way they took all three of the children into the prayer room before service and prayed together as a family.

My mother had 5 children and although I have never desired that many, I don't know what I would do without all of my siblings. We can fuss with each other and talk about each other but when hard times come we rally round each other and support each other. Family is all you have in this life and if the relationships are bad...life is bad also.