This week in class we watched two videos about what I would consider one of Satan's sneakiest tools!  I doubt any of us saw this one coming.  What is this tool you may ask?  It's another attack on the family.  For years now we have been lectured about overpopulation and the potential risks of having too many kids.  However, the videos we watched for class stated otherwise.  Did you know we are actually on a fertility decline?  People just aren't having as many children as they used to.  What does this mean for society and our futures?  Less people to take care of the older generation as they retire, less workers to complete jobs, higher taxes and many more repercussions.  Several reasons play into why the birth rate has dropped; things like individualism, more working mothers, age of marriage, cohabitation, sex before marriage, divorce rates, etc.  Something else I learned this week shocked me!  Elder Russell M. Nelson of the LDS church  gave a devotional at BYU-Idaho on January 26, 2010.  In his devotional he stated, "The latest data indicate that the world’s population is 6.8 billion people.  If every one of those 6.8 billion people were allocated one quarter of an acre (for example, under that formula a family with a father and a mother with two children would be given one acre), I repeat, if a quarter of an acre were allocated to each man, woman, and child now living on the earth today, they would all fit in the country of Brazil, with 20 percent of Brazil still left unoccupied" (Nelson, 2010)! Shocking right!?!  Many will say, well it's my choice how many children I have and I would say, you are exactly right!  It should be between you, your husband, and the Lord how many children you bring into this world, but please don't let other things get in the way of starting and raising a family.   I come from a family with seven kids and I wouldn't have it any other way!  

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I have never had a blog before and I'm slightly embarrassed to admit how long it took me to figure out how to start this thing!  However, I am not embarrassed to say how much I love my family.  We have been through thick and thin together and I can't think of anyone I would rather be stuck with forever!!