tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315410203810118753.post6740332033360156969..comments2022-11-06T01:32:34.300-06:00Comments on Catholic Culture and Society: Supersized Catholic families are not a mark of the Faithlove the girlshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11086068884134493993noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315410203810118753.post-29556049440202088282013-03-04T07:09:31.556-07:002013-03-04T07:09:31.556-07:00Susan Perterson,
I appreciate your comment.Susan Perterson,<br /><br />I appreciate your comment.love the girlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11086068884134493993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315410203810118753.post-87538043270575779142013-02-07T06:32:05.470-07:002013-02-07T06:32:05.470-07:00I disagree because not every woman who practices &...I disagree because not every woman who practices "ecological breast feeding" gets enough spacing not to have a large family. And yes, I read "Breast feeding and natural child spacing, and yes, after the first baby I did everything it says." My fertility returned by six months with one exception-when I was tandem nursing my first and second; then I got over a year of infertility. I also tried to use NFP and got a few months more of spacing out of it, until after number eight when I was in my thirties and less fertile; then I managed to get three years of spacing from NFP, before I had my ninth at 39. <br /><br />Ok,you are saying that this is somehow a problem with our society. I think it is the result of normal variation in women. I know women who could not conceive the next child so long as they were nursing at all, the least little bit. I have a friend who got a two or more year spacing but still had nine children because she married young. <br /><br />Personally I like seeing large families and I wish there were more of them. I don't think everyone is called to have a large family, but it is pretty obvious that some people who are called to have them, are not. However, so long as people do not contracept, it is up the the parents to discern the right size for their families, to the degree that they are able to make NFP -or natural child spacing-work for them. <br /><br />I admit that having a large family was a strain and mine was far far from perfect. I don't see that I had any particular gifts for being the mother of so many, either. Except maybe that I enjoyed teaching and being with small children, but that was not enough to carry me through all the other things which had to be done. <br /><br />But you are the one who keeps using that saying about letting the perfect be the enemy of the good! Being is goodness, better than non-being, is the principle I apply here. Only half jokingly. <br /><br />Susan Peterson <br /><br />eulogoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05307036781446427993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315410203810118753.post-55232814261543059762012-05-23T05:37:36.960-06:002012-05-23T05:37:36.960-06:00Thank you for your comment.
If you would care to ...Thank you for your comment.<br /><br />If you would care to explain why you disagree with me I would be more than glad to listen to your reason.<br /><br />Please further note:<br /><br />Most blog discussions are due to our loss of cultural standards of right action. We have for the most part lost our cultural memory and as a result we drift and latch onto whatever we find that we think has stability.<br /><br />Catholics are as a result splintered into factions.<br /><br />And while this blog is probably just another splintered faction of one, ( me ), what I am attempting to do is figure out what is the common ground that catholic society can actually build from.<br /><br />Which in turn means that I will not doubt offend many of those who read this blog because I will invariably question some aspect of their lives they consider virtually inseparable from the Faith.love the girlshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11086068884134493993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315410203810118753.post-629418821165001452012-05-22T16:06:55.716-06:002012-05-22T16:06:55.716-06:00You make me wanna barf!You make me wanna barf!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com