Secular society promotes small families

Posted: Mon, May 09 2005, 3:42 am Post subject:

[/quote]doctors are in business of offering their products and services. after you finish with one service, they offer you other services. if they know beforehand that you are against birth control then, they would not offer it to you. [/quote]

my doctor when saw that I had a tefilat haderech if the lubavitcher rebbe on it he told me that he knows a lot of lubavitchers and that he won't ask me to do anything that he knows that is against our belief. so I have to agree with you. if your doctor knows in advance that a person does not want to use birth control he won't ask you later on if you want to use birth control.

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Posted: Mon, May 09 2005, 3:30 pm Post subject:

Also when you are pregnant with medical help such as they use for people who find it very hard to have children and for people acting as surrogates, they most commonly have more than 2 children.

RG about your family "friend" dentist. Doesn't sound much of a friend to me if he embrassed u all the time like that.
I think out of all religions not promoting bc Judaism is the only one with loopholes. Catholics do not get loopholes and neither do Muslims.
Some of them use it regardless, whereas in Judaism there are loopholes and so a woman is more likley to ask halachic guidance on the use of it.
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I think that having children later in life also has something to do with the family size. Many women (in metro areas at least) don't think about "starting a family" until they are 35-37 years old and have a well established career. My OBGYN told me that pregnancy after 35 puts the baby and mother at "unnecessary" risk (tell it to a friend of mine who had her 13th child at 41 Smile

When was the last time you saw a family with 3 (or more) kids in a car/cellphone/grocery commercial? The "normal" family is Mom/Dad/Boy/Girl, right? Isn't TV the most powerful tool in shaping populations' views and opinions?
And yes, I was offered birth control and was told about the dangers of getting pregnant while nursing by my Dr. (we live in an Orthodox neighborhood), and I assume that my Dr. had my "best interests" in mind-time get back into shape, etc.