Married love, requires of husband and wife the full awareness of their obligations in the matter of responsible parenthood, which today, rightly enough, is much insisted upon, but which at the same time should be rightly understood. Thus, we do well to consider responsible parenthood in the light of its varied ligitimate and interrelated aspects.
With regard to the biological processes, responsible parenthood means an awareness of,and respect for, their proper functions. In the procreative faculty the human mind discerns biological laws that apply to the human person.
With regard to man's innate drives and emotions, responsible parenthood means that man's reason and will must exert control over them.
With regard to physical, economic, psychological and social conditions, responsible parenthood is exercised by those who prudently and generously decide to have more children, and by those who,for serious reasons and with due respect to moral precepts, decide not to have additional children for either a certain or an indefinite period of time.
Responsible parenthood, as we use the term here, has one further aspect of paramount importance. It concerns the objective moral order which was established by God, and of which a right conscience is the true interpreter. In a word, the exercise of responsible parenthood requires that husband and wife, keeping a right order of priorities, recognize their own duties toward God, themselves, their families and human society.
From this it follows that they are not free to act as they choose in the service of transmitting life, as if it were wholly up to them to decide what is the right course to follow. On the contrary, they are bound to ensure that they do correspond to the will of God the creator. The very nature of marriage and its use makes His will clear, while the constant teaching of the Church spells it out.
To foster responsible parenthood therefore dear friends in the Lord, to the married, spinsters, bachelors, widows, widowers ,and single parents...we ought to design our moral order to those in the society. Like in the past, children were considered special in a community and not of a particular family; therefore the community today should feel it has roles to play in moulding the children of our time deeply in virtues. A rotten society will definitely bring about more rotten future society. If we all stand and use the correct means of bringing them up, realizing our role, and most especially minding the future society then we should be moral upright.
Conclusively, a society that kills morals and virtues is rooted in the ways of the evil, whereas true significance of the Christian virtues can and should make morality a dynamic way of life.
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Samuel Nyonje Muhanji wishes you God's blessings.
[ Further reading: Paul VI, Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae ( On Human Life), no 10 ]
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