The Methodist Church believes that responsible contraception is a welcome means towards fulfillment in marriage, the spacing of children, and the need to avoid pregnancy altogether, for example for medical reasons.
The biggest pieces of work that we do are vaccines, because those save lives, and also family planning. Because if a woman can space the births of her children, it changes everything for her health and her child's health.
Demographers affirm that choosing to have a second child is already a potential choice in favour of a third.
I had five children in six years. The day I brought my fifth baby home, that week, my daughter turned 6.
I think I'm lucky that I had kids as spread out as much as I did, 'cause my son, my oldest, was born when I was 21. And my youngest is 15 now. He was born when I was 40, you know?
If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family.
I was born late - what my mother calls the last kick of a dying horse. There's three of us children, but I'm 13 or 14 years younger than my brother and sister.
The beauty of 'spacing' children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
