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Boy reads letter with life-changing news and an incredible gift

IssuesIssues·By Lauren Enriquez

Boy reads letter with life-changing news and an incredible gift

In an endearing video, a young boy is asked by his parents to read a letter to the camera, and they record his reaction to some unexpected news:

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The little boy’s response to learning that he is a big brother affirms the precious gift that a child is to a family. Everyone’s identity in a family changes a little bit when they receive a new addition. In this little boy’s case, a son becomes a big brother. He is visibly moved by the news and its impact on his own life.

The culture of death, urging population control, sterilization, and reduction, has an overall negative attitude towards growing families. Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, embodied this outlook in her famous quote, found in her book Woman and the New Race, about killing young members of large families:

On the other hand, the culture of life embraces the growth of families, and sees it as an overflow of the love that grows so great in families that it cannot be contained unless it spills over into new life. Pope John Paul II, in his 1994 Letter to Families, responded to the outlook of people like Margaret Sanger, explaining that children are a gift to families and to society, and siblings are a gift to one another:

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