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Catherine Pakaluk
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Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
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2024
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5 editions
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“suppose it boils down to some sort of deeply held thing, possibly from childhood—a platinum conviction—that the capacity to conceive children, to receive them into my arms, to take them home, to dwell with them in love, to sacrifice for them as they grow, and to delight in them as the Lord delights in us, that that thing, call it motherhood, call it childbearing, that that thing is the most worthwhile thing in the world—the most perfect thing I am capable of doing.”
― Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
― Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
“The women in our study gave witness to another sort of reply to the crisis of the West. Not a plan, or a policy, but a message—the salvation of the world is in the birth of a child.”
― Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
― Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
“Women make choices about having children based on “costs and benefits”—but not in the way we usually understand that phrase, which is the cash money we give up or get. Rather, women compare the subjective personal value of having another child with the subjective personal value of what they will miss out on if they have one. Both sides of the scale include gains and losses. The choice to have a child is a value determination about the relative size of those gains and losses. The values will not usually be quantifiable for an individual woman or comparable across women—even if a common estimation of things may arise out of our social nature.”
― Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
― Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth
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