Will You Still Need Me

 

Good day! I’m Duane Matz and this is Today’s Living Word.

 

In the news this week, China is offering parents 500 dollars per year, per child under age 3.

 

You remember China right? They are the ones who were so fearful of overpopulation that they instituted a one child only policy in 1979.

 

This policy was repealed in 2015.  For those 36 years abortion was forced on some women, others faced heavy fines, government employees were terminated from  their job if they had more than one child.

 

An exemption was made  for rural areas where if you had one female, you were allowed to have a second child if it was a male.

 

Where were the  demonstrators to decry the lot of female babies in China? In essence, it was genocide of females. And guess what? China now has a glaring shortage of females to males.  And a glaring shortage of people needed to sustain the status quo.

 

The experts on the matter of a sustainable population say that the minimum size of the family is 2.1 children and China with a fertility rate of 1.01 has now awakened to that truth.

 

The United States fertility rate is at 1.6, and ,most of Europe is also below that 2.1 figure!

 

The full impact of these declining rates has yet to be felt, but the Beatles summed up one of the effects with their song, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 64?”

 

Did God really say “Be fruitful and multiply,” Or was it be fruitful and subtract?”

 

Did God really say, “Ps 127:3 “Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward, or did He say they are a punishment from the Lord?”

 

I can’t pronounce it, but aside from the Bible the best thing I have read on the subject was written by Pope John Paul. The paper was called Humanae Vitae and released on July 25^th, 1968.

 

It is well worth the read.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word