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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Open to children" is Catholic Speak. Why anyone today would cede over their uterus to the Catholic Church is beyond me. I think that bunch squandered their moral authority a long time ago by protecting pedophiles and allowing them to abuse more and more innocent children, not to mention their fundamental disprect of women. Encouraging women to bear children until their innards fall out is madness. [/quote]

It's not just Catholic.  There are several other religions that encourage "openness" to children.[/quote]

indeed.  for example, don't both hasidic jews and the amish have large families?  mormons also tend to have large families?[/quote]

Mormons and birth control are fascinating.  A generation ago, birth control, even natural family plannin, was highly discouraged and their prophet went so far as to preach damnation to those who didn't let God decide.  In the early 1990s, the church leadership came out with a statement essentially saying that number of children was between a husband, wife and God and discouraged church members from judgin each others decisions.  So, now you still have some Mormons who have over three kids, even some that have 7 plus.  But, most educated Mormons these days have 2-3.  It's a great trend and hopefully will lead to more equality of the sexes in my religion!  I grew up wih four siblings - my two kids are keeping me busy enough and we are DONE![/quote]

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