She joined global media manager Morgan Lee and executive editor Ted Olsen to discuss the challenges of talking about babies and motherhood in 2021 in the culture at large but also inside the church.įollow our hosts on Twitter: Morgan Lee and Ted Olsenįollow our guest on Twitter: Rebecca McLaughlin Her latest book is The Secular Creed: Engaging Five Contemporary Claims. Rebecca McLaughlin is the author of Confronting Christianity, named Christianity Today's 2020 Beautiful Orthodoxy Book of the Year, and it's follow-up edition for youth, 10 Questions Every Teen Should Ask (and Answer) about Christianity. There's not much about motherhood that remains publicly unexplored, but that does.”

On Twitter, Jill Filipovic wrote, “I would really love to read more essays and op/eds from women (and men, too) who regret having children as early as they did, regret having as many as they did, or regret having children at all. But a good rule of thumb is that the easiest option- the one our current paradigm encourages- generally causes the most damage and suffering.” The easiest thing to do will always be to have children. I know it's difficult to reject the incredible social and cultural pressure that encourages us to reproduce. One NYT commenter wrote, “There are few things more irresponsible than bringing a child into the world in 2021. These numbers entered the news the same week the New York Times published an essay by columnist Elizabeth Bruenig, “ I Became a Mother at 25, and I’m Not Sorry I Didn’t Wait.” Many warmly received and shared the piece, which explores the author’s experience of learning she was pregnant and the many factors that have caused millennial women to delay children including economic concerns, higher education, race, and geography. But for the last decade, the number had begun trending downwards, plummeting to last year’s figure of 1.6 children per woman. For years, America’s 2.1 fertility rate made it an outlier to other developed countries. Last year, the US birthrate experienced its largest single-year drop in nearly 50 years.

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