MFP 234: How Can We Afford a Child
Messy Family Podcast : Catholic Conversations on Marriage and Family
Mike and Alicia Hernon : Catholic Marriage Parent and Family
4.9 • 841 Ratings
🗓️ 17 April 2023
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"How can there be too many children? That's like saying there are too many flowers." - St. Theresa of Calcutta
There is great confusion in our world, even among good Catholics, about the purpose of marriage and even the purpose of having children. Catholics do not "discern having another child". Instead, our default is that we are always open to new life in our families, but in grave circumstances, we can postpone pregnancy for the overall good of our family. In this episode, we discuss how we can form our conscience to come to a deeper understanding of the role of children in our marriage that includes, but also goes beyond, financial considerations. Discerning this area of marriage can be tricky, so we called a lifeline for this one, and invited Jonathan and Amanda Texiera, founders of WalletWin, to come on and help us to navigate this issue and give couples good questions to discuss with each other and options to consider.
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| 0:00.0 | Family, all in this together. |
| 0:08.2 | Family, we're taking a chance. |
| 0:10.7 | Family, like birds of a feather. |
| 0:13.3 | Family, you got my shoes and dance. |
| 0:15.4 | Hey, we are Mike and Alicia Hernin. |
| 0:17.4 | We have 10 kids and grandkids too, and we are here for every parent. Because we are on a |
| 0:22.2 | mission to empower moms and dads to embrace their sacred calling. So join the conversation. |
| 0:30.0 | Welcome to the neighborhood. Welcome to the program. We're so glad to you join us. We love doing |
| 0:36.3 | this show, but it is, it is, uh, it is great when |
| 0:40.2 | there are experiences that kind of come to us from outside sources. And it's even greater when |
| 0:45.7 | they come from outside sources. And then we can have like, oh, wait a second. We, we want to call a |
| 0:50.5 | lifeline. We want to call, we want to call in some friends. Yeah. You know what? Okay. So when we, some of you |
| 0:58.9 | who have been listening to the podcast like for a long time, kind of already know this, probably |
| 1:02.1 | recognize it. So when we first started the podcast, a lot of our podcasts were just things that |
| 1:09.1 | were got me riled up. Either there are lessons that we learned from our family members |
| 1:13.6 | or things that we've done with our own kids |
| 1:16.6 | or problems we've come across or whatever. |
| 1:18.6 | And we would just be like, let's just do a podcast on this. |
| 1:21.6 | And then some of our podcasts, we, you know, research and we do books |
| 1:25.6 | and, you know, things like that, |
| 1:26.6 | and they're kind of a little bit more, you know, developed and structured. |
| 1:30.1 | Developed and structured. |
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