{"id":28461,"date":"2024-12-15T19:24:48","date_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/its-been-a-grim-year-for-baby-making-but-what-can-the-christmas-story-teach-us-about-having-a-child\/"},"modified":"2024-12-15T19:24:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-15T19:24:48","slug":"its-been-a-grim-year-for-baby-making-but-what-can-the-christmas-story-teach-us-about-having-a-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/its-been-a-grim-year-for-baby-making-but-what-can-the-christmas-story-teach-us-about-having-a-child\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s been a grim year for baby-making. But what can the Christmas story teach us about having a child?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an enduring dilemma, this becoming-a-parent thing. It\u2019s never a good time to embark on parenthood<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/series\/making-sense-of-it\">Making sense of it<\/a> is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I had no strong desire to be a mum. Now that I am one to two boys, I can\u2019t imagine anything else. But I might increasingly be in the minority. Madeleine L\u2019Engle captured the mood of those ruling out parenthood: \u201cThis is no time for a child to be born, with the earth betrayed by war and hate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So opens her poem The Risk of Birth, Christmas, 1973<em>.<\/em> Maybe that year made for especially grim baby-making but regardless of the carnage of 1973 \u2013 and any year, really \u2013 it\u2019s an enduring dilemma, this becoming-a-parent thing. It\u2019s never a good time to have a baby.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2024\/dec\/15\/its-been-a-grim-year-for-baby-making-but-what-can-the-christmas-story-teach-us-about-having-a-child\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s an enduring dilemma, this becoming-a-parent thing. It\u2019s never a good time to embark on parenthood Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life I had no strong desire to be a mum. Now that I am one to two boys, I can\u2019t imagine &#8230; <a title=\"It\u2019s been a grim year for baby-making. But what can the Christmas story teach us about having a child?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/15\/its-been-a-grim-year-for-baby-making-but-what-can-the-christmas-story-teach-us-about-having-a-child\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about It\u2019s been a grim year for baby-making. But what can the Christmas story teach us about having a child?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}