Yesterday Happy Father’s Day messages were all over social media. One directly sent to me caught my attention and got me thinking about fatherhood. After reading this message, I wondered what the sender had in mind. I came to the conclusion that probably he wanted to highlight that fatherhood is a doing word. In thisContinue reading “Father is a Doing Word”
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Husband’s Ministry of Presence in a Childless Marriage
While it is said that absence makes the heart grow fonder, an emotionally absent husband makes the heart of his childless wife feel unloved and worthless. In a pronatalist society, it is only a supportive husband that can provide the needed emotional support. In this way, he will have become a house bandage that brings soothing to the painful wounds of having no child.
Children Care for the Childless
Children demonstrate emotional intelligence. They are so considerate that they are not careless in their words. In dealing with people who are childless, use the innocence of children because “in the eyes of a child, you will see the world as it should be.”
Wake Up, Walk Tall and Win Strong: Thriving When the Answer is a “No!”
In my culture when one dies childless, he or she is buried together with a rat. This is a sign that the person never contributed biologically to the society. This kind of thinking neglects other achievements that this person will have done. Ironically, in the same culture, people who die having robbed the world of visions, people whose ideas never saw the light of day and whose great dreams were never born are eulogized as heroes.
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