Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: April 04, 2019 01:18PM
My parents love this movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdsLBupTNcchttps://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042327/?ref_=ttpl_pl_ttThey were married in 1959 in their mid-twenties so this film was a huge influence on their having 10 kids. They tried for 12 but a stillborn child (can't baptism them) between 9 and 10 contributed to their decision to not push into their late 40s continuing to have kids.
My parents see this movie as their ideal. I heard them say it. We watched the later version many times on video in the 80s. Suffice it to say The Sound of Music and Cheaper by The Dozen were the top of cinematic art for my parents and their worship of big family.
And my parents are well educated - both.
There is no doubt in my mind that my parents were inculcated to not use birth control. They both see it as Satan's tool to reduce those spirits coming down. Incidentally, the love that craptastic show "Saturday's Warrior." It advocates their sentiments.
In short, I believe education can help people not to do what my parents did but I think that religion can preserve "spiritually" the mindset that may not see birth control as evil but definitely a tool of the devil. Not many Mormons I know will even talk about birth control. It is a taboo subject still as far as I can tell.
Anyone else notice the demonization of birth control in Mormons and Mormonism? Maybe they have finally seen the light but with a man with a big family at the top I doubt it. And I am only able to type this because my parents wanted a bigger family. I am one of the elders of the youngers in my family.