NFP IS NOT ALWAYS MARRIAGE BUILDING

When I was engaged, a friend asked whether I planned to use contraception. I explained that I did not, and that I was learning to use natural family planning. She wished me well, but warned that it had not worked for her. “What they don't tell you in those classes is that you have to abstain at just the times when it’s hardest. That’s how I got pregnant the first time, and the second time. After that I started taking the pill.”

It's a scandal that my friend was not warned of NFP's challenges by her instructors. Had she been, she might have stuck with it. Unfortunately, a lot of NFP promoters preach NFP as a prosperity gospel. When this happens, NFP doesn’t deliver and people abandon it.

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