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July 13, 2012
Title: Today, Are Children Economically Worthless But Emotionally Priceless?
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Ken Connor
with Center for a Just Society (www.aJustSociety.org)
A century ago, children were viewed as economic assets since they were worker-bees for the family farm or business. But today, are children viewed as economically
worthless but emotionally priceless?
Do more and more parents admit to resenting the loss of freedom and autonomy that comes with assuming the mantle of parenthood?
Prior to having children, do many couples use the “balance sheet approach” to
assess the value of children: net worth equals assets minus liabilities and the
gain/strain ratio?
By keeping God out of the equation, are we then merely isolated products of
random chance and raging hormones rather than immortal souls?
Mr. Connor, does God by design have a different plan for human kind?
Does God call upon man and woman to a higher purpose than to just live and then
die, but to procreate, and if so, why?
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April 17, 2012
Title: Today, Are Children Economically Worthless But Emotionally Priceless?
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Ken Connor
with Center for a Just Society (www.aJustSociety.org)
A century ago, children were viewed as economic assets since they were worker-bees for the family farm or business. But today, are children viewed as economically
worthless but emotionally priceless?
Do more and more parents admit to resenting the loss of freedom and autonomy that comes with assuming the mantle of parenthood?
Prior to having children, do many couples use the “balance sheet approach” to
assess the value of children: net worth equals assets minus liabilities and the
gain/strain ratio?
By keeping God out of the equation, are we then merely isolated products of
random chance and raging hormones rather than immortal souls?
Mr. Connor, does God by design have a different plan for human kind?
Does God call upon man and woman to a higher purpose than to just live and then
die, but to procreate, and if so, why?
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March 7, 2012
Title: Today, Are Children Economically Worthless But Emotionally Priceless?
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Ken Connor
with Center for a Just Society (www.aJustSociety.org)
A century ago, children were viewed as economic assets since they were worker-bees for the family farm or business. But today, are children viewed as economically
worthless but emotionally priceless?
Do more and more parents admit to resenting the loss of freedom and autonomy that comes with assuming the mantle of parenthood?
Prior to having children, do many couples use the “balance sheet approach” to
assess the value of children: net worth equals assets minus liabilities and the
gain/strain ratio?
By keeping God out of the equation, are we then merely isolated products of
random chance and raging hormones rather than immortal souls?
Mr. Connor, does God by design have a different plan for human kind?
Does God call upon man and woman to a higher purpose than to just live and then
die, but to procreate, and if so, why?
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September 2, 2010
Title: TODAY, ARE CHILDREN ECONOMICALLY WORTHLESS BUT EMOTIONALLY PRICELESS?
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Ken Connor
with Center for a Just Society (www.aJustSociety.org)
Does modern man and woman view having children as a good thing or a bad
thing? Ken Connor, Chairman of the Center for a Just Society discusses the
“Purpose of Parenting”.
Ken Connor, welcome once again to the What’s UP Radio Program….
1. A century ago, children were viewed as economic assets, as worker-bees for
the family farm or business. But today, are children viewed as economically
worthless but emotionally priceless?
2. Do more and more parents admit to resenting the loss of freedom and autonomy
that comes with assuming the mantle of parenthood?
3. Prior to having children, do many couples use the “balance sheet approach” to
assess the value of children: net worth equals assets minus liabilities and the
gain/strain ratio?
4. By keeping God out of the equation, are we then merely isolated products of
random chance and raging hormones rather than immortal souls?
5. Mr. Connor, does God by design have a different plan for human kind?
6. Does God call upon man and woman to a higher purpose than to just live and
then die, but to procreate, and if so, why?
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August 17, 2010
Title: Are Children the Enemy of Productivity? Part 1 of 2
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Colin Mason
with Population Research Institute (www.pop.org)
Cyril Connolly once said that “there is no more somber enemy of good art than the pram in the hallway.” Connelly is here suggesting that the distractions implicit in rearing a child will undercut an artist's attempt to create, so children are to be avoided insofar as possible. I have long believed that Connelly is wrong in opposing children to art. So I was pleasantly surprised, recently, to see my view validated by Frank Cottrell Boyce, a successful British screenwriter, novelist and actor. Boyce's article, entitled “The Parent Trap: Art After Children” and appearing in Britain's Guardian, makes the case that children, far from inhibiting or destroying an artist's creativity, are actually a creative boon. (Continued next segment)
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Title: Are Children the Enemy of Productivity? Part 2 of 2
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Colin Mason
with Population Research Institute (www.pop.org)
He has this to say about fatherhood and art: What is "me", if not the sum of all my relationships and obligations? A customer, that's what. The more you give, the more you are. Think of Chekhov, with his patients and his crowds of dependent relatives, whose living room became such a public space that he had to put up no smoking signs. His advice to young writers was "travel third class". Ralph Waldo Emerson's was to "buy carrots and turnips" … There's a belief that to do great work you need tranquility and control that the pram is cluttering up the hallway; life needs to be neat and tidy. This isn't the case. Tranquility and control provide the best conditions for completing the work you imagined. But surely the real trick is to produce the work that you never imagined. The great creative moments in our history are almost all stories of distraction and daydreaming — Archimedes in the bath, Einstein dreaming of riding a sunbeam — of alert minds open to the grace of chaos.
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January 4, 2010
Title: ARE CHILDREN # 1 IN YOUR HOME AND AT YOUR CHURCH?
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Pastor Mike Barres
with Calvary Assembly of God
Are we losing our children? I say, “Yes we are”! How can we re-capture our children? Just a Minute is a series of devotional articles, which take no more than a few minutes to read and digest. They are written by deeply committed followers of Christ, and are dedicated to presenting the Scriptures in an interesting, entertaining, and topical way. For more information on how you can receive Just a Minute Daily Devotions in your email box, log onto www.justaminute.faithweb.com
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July 25, 2006
Title: ARE CHILDREN # 1 IN YOUR HOME AND AT YOUR CHURCH?
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Pastor Mike Barres
with Calvary Assembly of God
Are we loosing our children? I say, “Yes we are”! How can we re-capture our children? Just a Minute is a series of devotional articles, which take no more than a few minutes to read and digest. They are written by deeply committed followers of Christ, and are dedicated to presenting the Scriptures in an interesting, entertaining, and topical way. For more information on how you can receive Just a Minute Daily Devotions in your email box, log onto www.justaminute.faithweb.com
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July 19, 2006
Title: ARE CHILDREN # 1 IN YOUR HOME AND AT YOUR CHURCH?
Topic: Children and Their Importance
Discussed by Pastor Mike Barres
with Calvary Assembly of God
Are we loosing our children? I say, “Yes we are”! How can we re-capture our children? Just a Minute is a series of devotional articles, which take no more than a few minutes to read and digest. They are written by deeply committed followers of Christ, and are dedicated to presenting the Scriptures in an interesting, entertaining, and topical way. For more information on how you can receive Just a Minute Daily Devotions in your email box, log onto www.justaminute.faithweb.com
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