This is taken from the Holy Father’s address to the Brazilian bishops, who were recently in Rome for their ad limina visit.
I found this interesting, having always thought of divorce as leading to a lack rather than a surplus.
The pope criticized the “so-called extended and mobile family which increases the number of ‘fathers’ and ‘mothers,’ and leads to a situation today in which the majority of those who feel orphaned are not children without parents, but children with a surplus of parents.”
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This brought to mind those men and women who marry knowing full well that they cannot support a family and planning from the outset to have mom, dad, sis, bro, and anyone else babysit their children so they both can work. It's a mess. Every time.
Eoin, I am not sure this is about "planning" it is about diffuse parenting and disappearance of the family unit. We would not want to have some sort of economic test for having children, would we? I don't think that would be a very Christian agenda.