Thomas Griffin 8/18/24 (For National Catholic Register)
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My brother and his wife just had their second child, another boy. Holding him for the first time this past week brought me back to the first time I held my two boys and left me with the joyful expectation of holding our next child (due this September).
However, a new Pew Research Center survey has sparked conversations regarding the joy (or lack thereof for some people) about having children. Among adults under 50 who say they’re unlikely ever to have children, most say “they just don’t want to” (57% of respondents), while many stated that “they want to focus on other things” (44%) or “they don’t really like children” (20%)
Christian parents, and single Christians who hope and pray to have children one day, know that these are sad statistics.
Thomas Griffin is the chairperson of the religion department at a Catholic high school on Long Island where he lives with his wife and two sons. He has a masters degree in theology and is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Empty Tomb Project: The Magazine. He is the author of Let Us Begin: Saint Francis’s Way of Becoming Like Christ and Renewing the World.
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