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Numbers (Bible, #4)

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Feb 26, 2026 06:41AM

“I think that bringing children into the world is like bringing holiness into the world. Like every soul has a mission that can only be fulfilled by that individual and we don’t know what that individual’s mission is and even what our own mission is. We’re all figuring it out as we go. And I think, yes, it is something that I do for God in a sense of the work component.”
― Catherine Pakaluk, Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

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“Women’s time is the biggest input into childbearing; if that input has become more expensive in terms of opportunity costs, only those with an extraordinarily high demand for children will still have children—whether they go to medical school or not. No social welfare policy in the world is (or could be) generous enough to change that calculus. What you need is the conviction, captured in Steph’s considered answer to the rude lady at Goofy’s Kitchen: “Because this is where the joy in life comes from.”
― Catherine Pakaluk, Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth

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