I am all for birth control. I don’t know what the church’s standing is now, but I feel that you should not have children that you can’t afford to keep. When we were in Adelaide on our mission, there was one lady at church that had about a 10th or 12th child and living on the dole. She said that she was fulfilling church teachings because you are supposed to keep having children. To me, that is one thing scoffing at another because the church also teaches you that you need to be independent. If you can’t be independent than I don’t think you can be expected to have children that you can’t afford to provide for. And I think every situation is a bit different—and to me, this is probably not Latter-day Saint teaching, but here in Australia, it is hard to get your own home, so I would encourage young couples to both work for a few years not for the luxuries, but to put a humble roof over your heard first.
Then your life is more comfortable for the rest of your life. If you have children straight away, you can’t afford that nowadays. I guess it is the dame now as when I was young that you get married and you have babies, but we had a humble house first. But there are still some that have a family straight away as a church teaching, but here isn’t as easy to go to University, when you are raising a family, once you have a family it isn’t easy to further your education to support your family and get a house. So I don’t believe in putting it off too long, but I believe in working hard and putting a roof over your head first. So instead of paying rent, you are paying off a mortgage.