I meant to post something about this during the squall that erupted over Obama’s contraception mandate, but that’s the same week a ship off Mombasa dropped anchor on the cable carrying high-speed Internet into Kenya, and life online slowed down to a crawl. 😉 That’s okay. Plenty of other folks took time to comment, both on friends’ Facebook threads and on blogs.

During the brouhaha, I read an absurd and inaccurate article about how “quiverfull” women (those of us with more than the acceptable 2.1 children, I guess) are basically put-upon martyrs, roasted upon the spit of fecundity while our brains go to rot. It was such drivel I didn’t even bother to bookmark it, so now I can’t find it, of course. But it really brought home the fact that feminism still paints mothers at home (and especially mothers with several children) as brainless slaves who can’t make a coherent choice about what color to wear on a daily basis, let alone how many children are “realistic” or how we’re supposed to have any semblance of a cogent thought at the end of a long day full of homemaking, homeschooling, and the general work of any normal marriage relationship.

So I’ve got a long article in the works. It’s bubbling along in my overworked (or is it “underworked?”) brain, and I promise I’ll eventually get it from brain cell to keyboard. Until then, I’d just like to put a shout out to all my fellow wives and mothers who are exercising their minds in the bringing up of the next generation of producers. Continue reading “The Long-Term Importance of Fertility”