The fact is, though, that for many families in this country, birth control is here to stay because most people simply cannot afford a large family.You're wrong about that. If a couple decides to have a big family instead of cable tv, eating out to fancy restaurants, owning Lexus sedans, and vacations in Europe. See, that's how things ought to be.
The country will change because the liberals who believes in abortion will cease to exist in the next few generations. Maybe it's evolution in progress, after all.
What about a woman who can't handle a large family, emotionally. Perhaps she has an immature husband who is not really able to husband: to plan, to provide, to secure a life for her and her children. Or, he is someone given to drinking or fooling around. Perhaps he never thinks about the future and lives day to day leaving her to worry about bills, education, the car, etc. Maybe she is a limited person who is not able to multi task and the confusion of an unmanaged household overwhelms her. Or, she may have very demanding personalities in her children, and more would overwhelm her. I talk with my friends about this. Some of us have two, some have four, one has eight but she's married to a doctor and knows no financial worries. Most of us have used some or other form of birth control and we are Catholic, we don't feel good about it but there are reasons. We see the point of birth control being the conduit to many problems, but we see the other problems, too. One friend tried NFP. She said she couldn't keep up with it because her two year old and infant placed such demands on her, not to mention two older active boys, and she was never able to have the daily uniterrupted quiet time necessary to chart and plan. Some how or other she was always interrupted.
My seventeen year old is a fairly faithful Catholic, but when we were discussing NFP he said, "Mom, what's the difference between that and, say, a condom: you are still planning and controlling birth. I call that birth control" That was hard to answer. Just some food for thought. V's wife.