When a Married Couple Should Consider Parenthood

As we all know, when two people, man and woman, fall in love and decide that its time to make a life long commitment, a marriage is arranged. After the marriage, the couple usually finds a place to move in to live together at. However, before moving in, and directly after the marriage is another step that all couples love to hear about… Honeymoon! Enjoy it while you can because most people only usually get a few honeymoons in their life at the most. But be careful, because the last thing that you want to happen is the unplanned and unexpected right?

When I went to my senior prom, my mother told me and my date “OK there are two of you going to prom together. Don’t come back with three.” In case you couldn’t find out what this meant, it was her way of saying “Don’t make any babies while you’re out!” It’s funny how parents are usually worried about their children having sex on prom night and getting pregnant, but they completely forget about warning their children before their honeymoon to wait a little while before making a child.

Children are a joy to be around, but whoever said that you can’t put a price on happiness obviously did not remember to consider babies. Babies bring smiles to everyone’s heart and face, and bring frowns to our wallets and purses. No baby is cheap, because it costs money to have the doctor confirm your pregnancy test, then you have to prepare for the baby’s arrival with equipment and beds etc., followed by paying for the birth of the child, and last is raising the child (which includes everything from diapers and milk formula to clothes, schooling, and college). Like I said before… These costs place a rather LARGE frown on your wallets and purses. It’s probably a good idea to wait just a little while before making Jr.

So in conclusion, I believe that all newly weds should wait long enough to set up a good bank account and a stable environment before planning parenthood. The most important thing to wait for is financial stability. It would be hard to have a child that’s growing up, not able to have a lot of the things that he/she wants because money is so tight. And the way that the economy is headed, money and budgets are only going to just keep getting tighter and tighter. But who am I to tell you what to do? All I am doing is making suggestions that I feel that you should most definitely look into before looking into the removals of condoms and the forgetting of birth control pills. But what ever choices that you decide to make, I wish you all best of luck in your relationships, and I hope that I have been of some assistance with this article! May God bless you all!