Prince William and Kate Middleton strike major blow to ‘two children or less’ mentality
Prince William and Kate Middleton, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, recently broke the news that they are expecting their third child. The couple already have son Prince George, aged 4 and daughter Princess Charlotte, 2. Kate’s third pregnancy reportedly “breaks a 58-year tradition” in which the Queen’s immediate royal family has had no more than two children per couple. Queen Elizabeth actually had four children herself, the last of whom was born in 1964. While the family and the Queen were delighted with the news, not everyone was so happy. One family planning group, ironically called “Having Kids” which advocates for small families, composed an open letter to the couple actually asking them to reconsider having another baby. The group were subsequently faced with a backlash and later retracted their plea, saying, “We did so to encourage them to set an example of the most effective thing possible to mitigate climate change and protect the future,” but still managed a subtle attack, adding, “… [W]e don’t have to always rely on celebrities to lead by example. Changing this world for the better does not happen overnight.”
Separate condemnation of the baby news came from some lower-income families in the UK who learned just months ago that the Tory party voted to repeal the country’s Child Tax Credit for all but the first two children born into a family (with a few exceptions). This new rule will not impact children already born. However, these families will still have to pay taxes, which, in turn, support the royal family directly, while they themselves will be penalized for doing exactly as William and Kate have done.
The message coming from the UK is patently obvious: have more than two children, and you will be punished for it.
But this is about more than simply being financially penalized; into society on a much broader scale creeps an attitude of bias and discrimination against larger families. In today’s profoundly anti-life culture, expressing a desire for more children is often met with total disbelief. The idea that two children, one of each sex, is the ‘ideal size’ and the ‘ideal family’ is propagated so commonly in our culture that people often ponder over why on earth a family with a boy and a girl would seek to have another child. Equally baffling is the accepted notion that only if you don’t get a child of each sex, it is then considered acceptable to “keep trying” for a child of the opposite sex. Had our own families down through the years held to the modern mentality of the “ideal family”, many of our parents wouldn’t exist, nor would we, and neither would our children.
Margaret Sanger herself, the founder of Planned Parenthood, would have undoubtedly loved the popular two-child or less mentality of today. After all, the notorious foundress of the United States’ biggest killing machine, authored a 1917 publication which she titled, “Family Limitations,” and in which she stated, “Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most.” Children exceeding two, she wrote, “are not really wanted,” concluding that “women of intelligence” are those who prevent excessive pregnancies. The publication then proceeds to instruct women how to bring about early abortions by ingesting substances to make the uterine lining inhospitable to very newly-conceived human lives, and talks about various other methods of birth control.
Sanger also writes in her publication:
“Birth control, or family limitation, has been recommended by some of the leading physicians of the United States and Europe…. It has already been incorporated into the private moral code of millions of the most influential families in every civilized country.”
This view of ‘two children and no more’ has its roots in the eugenics movement. Abortion advocates have for decades promoted population control for the “unfit,” while the eugenicists of today conceal their mentality using environmental concerns as a readily available excuse.
“The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” This is a line taken directly from one of Sanger’s publications in which she expresses the eugenic philosophy that Planned Parenthood, Marie Stopes and every other abortion giant follows to this day.