Time magazine has stirred up the social pot again, with its recent cover picturing a couple clearly reveling in "The Childfree Life." In her cover article Lauren Sandler offers a vivid glimpse into the fast-growing world of women "having it all without having children." She not only lets us see the statistics; she also lets us hear the voices of the women they document. The statistics themselves are dramatic: for example, about one in five American women now bear no children, compared to one in ten in the 1970s. We're talking about remarkably quick demographic change.
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The most basic problem is that the childfree life does not take God into account—God the Creator and giver of all gifts, including the gift of life. The Time article is all about children as a human choice; the Bible speaks about children as gifts of God (Ps. 127:3). Even we believers struggle to think straight about this distinction, amid a world full of talk about choosing to have children and when and what kind and how many. It's a complicated subject, but for a Christian it starts with God the Creator and giver of life. Only this God-grounded perspective lets us begin to see the worth of a child as a gift to be rightly and thankfully received. And, interestingly, only this perspective lets us see the worth of a woman to whom God grants or does not grant children. Trusting in our Creator God, we have no need to clamor for other than what he gives, or to seek to please any but him.
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