Motherhood: The Highest Calling

Mother and Child
We have five children. When they were young my wife, Judy, was often abused in the grocery check out line with comments like,  "Don't you know what causes babies?"

It has not gotten better. Today the animosity is worse.

Doug Wilson's daughter, Rachel, has penned an excellent piece on the dignity and importance of motherhood. This article is medicine for our modern predicament.

Her essay matters greatly. The crucial craft of motherhood is slowly disappearing. In a recent survey of High School girls less than 5% indicated that they wanted to grow up and be stay-at-home moms. By contrast,  Charles Murray notes that in the 1960s, ninety percent of High School girls wanted to be stay at home moms.


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