The Bible is clear that children are a gift from God. So is there any room for a Christian couple to decide not to have any? We love to hear from our international listeners, who are spread out all across the globe. Here’s a question today from a young woman. “Hello, Pastor John! Greetings from Finland and thank you for this podcast. I am married, but my husband and I have no children. In Genesis, God tells the first couple to ‘be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on the earth and multiply in it’ ( Genesis 9:7 7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; Bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein. ). Today many people in my nation, people who are married and capable of having children, choose not to. Intentional childlessness has become very common in the past decade, and the reasons are diverse: fears about climate change, worries about the fragile health of the mother, worries about being a bad parent, and simply de-prioritizing children entirely. “I know you said it was permissible for couples to wait to have kids and to limit the number of children they have. And you said it is permissible, in some cases, for a missionary couple to forgo children altogether. But how about non-missionary Christians? Is it permissible for an ordinary Christian couple to simply choose to not have children?” How would you respond Pastor John? Read or listen to this interview at our website: https://www.desiringgod.org/interviews/are-christian-couples-required-to-have-kids Find other recent and popular Ask Pastor John episodes: https://www.desiringgod.org/ask-pastor-john