Mormons Large Familes Reasoning Family Planning

Mormon mothers are sent to college to earn a degree, then "heavily" encouraged by the LDS church culture (read guilt) to then quit their hard earned, high paying jobs to stay home churning out kiddos for the church. Bored out of their skulls, and privately resentful of all that learning now going to waste on a passle of kids who's chief interests are Spongebob and PB&J 3X a day. No more earning their own paychecks, stimulating conversation, getting out into the exciting world, that sort of thing. What else is there to do?

Coming from a very large Utah Mormon family myself, over the years I've wondered if it just wasn't "Mormon Mothers' Revenge" at being heavily "encouraged" to walk away from all their hard work that now goes unrecognized, in trade for nothing higher than being a vagina with a womb attached merely to create more mormons. Maybe Mormon women are smartening up, though. They don't have as many as they used to in my day. Now 3-4 are the norm.

I'm the mother of 7 successful adults, so no, I am not downing motherhood. What I feel sorry for are those women in the LDS who buy into some unwritten but intensely dominating church culture OF motherhood, instead of being allowed to choose for themselves what it is THEY want. What is a better role model for your children? To be a dynamic person in your own right? Or to privately resent them and your church for not being "allowed" to be who you are? I'd say the same to those in various Christian denominations who heavily imply that mothers should stay home with their children when they want both. If fathers are not encouraged to stay home with their children, why should mothers be? Because its a cultural thing and always has been. But "culture" has never been "biblical".

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Mormons give more money to charity than any other group of people in the world
and no other group of people is even the same ballpark, 
according to income tax returns.

Mormons on the average have 3 children per couple in the United States Of America.
Non-Mormons before the 1960's had over 5 children per couple in the United States of
America, on the average. Now days Non-Mormons have less than 1.3 children 
per couple in the United States Of America on the average.

Therefor the only logical conclusion is that, it is that it is not so much that 
Latter Day Saints are having more children than Non-Latter Day Saints it is that
Non-Latter Day Saints in the United States Of America are not having children.

NON-LDS people in the United States Of America have stopped reproducing
to a great extent. This trend is increasing. It requires at least 2 children per couple
to reproduce the current population level.

Given that Mormons have the lowest crime rate the only logical conclusion why
only bad behavior by Mormons is news-worthy, while any good news that Mormons
do is not newsworthy, is because the media-industrial complex robber-barons, that 
is to say, the owners of the deceptive media, they have an obvious ax to grind
against Mormons.

They can break most people down with their deceptions and the products that they 
push and get people addicted to their products. But Latter Day Saints are not as 
easily induced to get addicted to the products that the Media-Barrons push, 
day and night, incessantly, to a dumbed-down semi-brain damaged sheeple population.

This makes Mormons enemy number one.

This is so because Latter Day Saints believe completely one hundred percent
in God's Son.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7MACCEZ3…

http://Mormon.org Chat.

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This is what the LDS Church has to say about family planning:

"God has a plan for the happiness of all who live on the earth, and the birth of children in loving families is central to His plan. The first commandment He gave to Adam and Eve was to “be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” (Genesis 1:28). The scriptures declare, “Children are a heritage of the Lord” (Psalm 127:3). Those who are physically able have the blessing, joy, and obligation to bear children and to raise a family. This blessing should not be postponed for selfish reasons.

Husband and wife are encouraged to pray and counsel together as they plan their families. Issues to consider include the physical and mental health of the mother and father and their capacity to provide the basic necessities of life for their children."

Does that sound like the LDS Church is commanding couples to produce large families, no matter what? I don't think so. 

Additionally, this question is not just insulting to LDS mothers, but to all mothers who have more than the average number of children, and to families who choose to adopt additional children.

Source(s):

http://www.lds.org/topics/birth-control?…
 
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From what I've read, I think the reason hinges upon "eternal progression" and working your way up to the ultimate goal of becoming like god. The highest level is the celestial kingdom and all diligent, Temple-sealed, tithe paying Mormons hope to work their way up to that esteemed rank where god-hood will be the reward. But you must be married and have children.

When you’re a Mormon, family is forever (whether you want it or not). Marriage is a sacred relationship between man and wife. Eternal families are built through celestial marriage only and young women have to keep themselves pure. The gift they have must be given only to the man who will walk beside them for eternity. Women have the ability to give and nurture life – the veil that the spirits waiting in heaven pass through in order to come to earth. It is a sacred calling and responsibility. Spirits are sent from the pre-existence to get a body. After the resurrection, humans are given celestial flesh – perfect bodies. Children born to LDS mothers are providing a body for one of Heavenly Father’s Spirit children. Their children are born in the covenant, with no need to find the gospel later in life and convert because they were valiant in the pre-existence.

After baptism and confirmation, couples wait for a year for the “endowment,” temple sealing with film, handshakes, passwords, aprons, mirrors, veils, hats, chanting and the giving of a secret name. Couples who are married in the temple are each given a secret name that is used to call them after death “through the veil.” When used, the secret name will pull the spouse out of death and darkness into light and the presence of God, to be reunited with their spouse and family. Providing they have been faithful in keeping the covenants, chains of family will be waiting, all sealed together backwards to Adam. They believe that Heavenly Father’s only task for humans in this life is to make families into a heaven on earth. Brigham Young set the example - he had over 40 wives (but I don't know how many children he fathered).

Here is a sample of what Mormons believe about the necessity to marry and reproduce:

To progress his own god-hood, Jesus had to be married to at least three identified women. The wedding at Cana is said to be Jesus’ wedding to one woman. Joseph Smith claimed to be a direct descendant of Jesus. References - LDS Journal of Discourses Vol 1 pp 345-346

If Mormons follow that example and go through the Mormon Temple Ceremony and are obedient to the end, and if the judgment on their personal works of obedience are sufficient to cover their personal sin in their lives, they can be judged worthy to enter into the Celestial Kingdom, the highest degree of glory, and become gods and goddesses. References - Doctrines of Salvation Vol 2 pp 44-46.

Each Mormon man will be given many wives to take to his new kingdom and be sent out to some new place even as Elohim was sent out before him. There the process will begin anew. Each must pass by Brother Joseph Smith and receive his final approval. References - LDS Journal of Discourses Vol 4 p 271

None of that is based on the Bible, especially the suggestion that Jesus was married to three women and had children. As to the afterlife, the Bible says that in the resurrection there will be no marriage or reproduction. LM
 
 
 
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