What does Ellen White write about...
Adventistische Schriften über: "Ellen White on large families and housing situation"
Answer
Ellen White comments in the present texts on responsibility in family planning and warns against a too rapid enlargement of the family when parents are not able to adequately care for their children. She emphasizes that parents should not enlarge their family faster than they know they can properly provide for and raise their children. The provided quotations do not contain specific statements about the housing situation itself – the focus is on the social, health, and economic consequences of large families.
Warning against irresponsible family enlargement
»I was shown that you have enlarged your family without being aware of the responsibility you are taking upon yourself. [...] By such rapid enlargement of your family you have been kept in a state of poverty, and the mother who was occupied with raising the young family members had no fair chance for her life.«
Responsibility toward the children
»Parents should not enlarge their families faster than they know their children can be well provided for and educated. A child year after year in the mother's arms is a great injustice toward her. It often diminishes and destroys societal joy and increases domestic misery.«
Help for needy families
»We should help those who constantly struggle with weakness and poverty in providing for large families. Many widowed mothers with their fatherless children work far beyond their strength to keep their little ones with them and to provide them with food and clothing.«
- Ellen White responsibility parents education children
- Ellen White poverty family provision
- Ellen White health mother exhaustion
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