October 30th, 2009
Just a Baby Machine?
I get sick of mormon women being called “baby machines”. We are not baby machines and we’re not required to crank out as many kids as humanly possible. It’s to be done prayerfully and we take into account whether we can supply their needs, our mental and physical health, and there are plenty of mormon women on birth control and couples who decide to have tubal ligations or vasectomies. I would say the average size today of Mormon families are about four, which is really not a huge number. We do have some families with 8 or more, but it’s becoming more rare.
