Children: God’s Gift or Economic Liability?
I recently read Felix Yang’s article “The Six Nooses: How Interventionism Is Strangling the Family’s Will to Reproduce,” published by the Mises Institute and printed on a financial website.[1] Yang contends that the collapse in birth rate is not a mysterious cultural anomaly. Instead, he argues it is the rational response of individuals living under a century of government interventions that have broken the link between parental sacrifice and long-term reward. He identifies six “nooses” that strangled the benefits of having children. According to him they were all economic. In other words, Yang was saying that because of government regulations the economic reward of having children has been strangled.
But the real reason goes far deeper than the economy and government regulations. The reason more couples increasingly treat children as an optional economic liability rather than a blessing is cultural and spiritual. As our nation has drifted from its biblical roots and turned away from God, many now see children primarily as a financial burden or a drain on the earth’s resources. Scripture is clear on this point. Psalm 127:3 states, “Lo, children are a heritage of the Lord, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.”
Children were never valued chiefly as future providers for one’s old age; they were received as a gift. Today they are often reduced to a self-centered economic calculation, a commodity or asset omitted from the “portfolio” if it fails to add financial value. In short, children have been demoted from a gift of God to a human resource or an ecological threat.
Viewing the decision to have children solely through a financial or institutional lens overlooks deeper moral shifts that have shaped public thinking for decades. Other influences deserve attention: Darwinism (with its emphasis on survival of the fittest and the idea that humans are merely animals), Malthusian overpopulation theory, the legacy of Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood, and the United Nations’ Agenda 21 (now Agenda 2030). I will examine these factors in the remainder of this article.
Darwin, Malthus, Paul Erlich’s “Population Bomb and the United Nations Sustainable Development Plan
Darwin’s Evolution and Survival of the Fittest theory and Malthus’s flawed overpopulation theory have been taught side by side in the public schools as factual. The Biblical truth of human beings created in the image of God has been replaced with man evolving from animals. Only the fittest survive.
Malthus was a British economist and statistician who wrote in 1798 “An Essay on the Principle of Population.” He came from the elite upper class in England. He despised the poor underclass “useless eaters” who were multiplying in the slums of England. He believed that they were a drain on the economy. He used flawed mathematical calculations to claim that the population would soon outpace the food supply if they were left to procreate. He was a promoter of eugenics and believed that the poor were inferior. His theory was embraced by the elite ruling class of England. His flawed mathematical overpopulation theory is still taught in schools today.
In the U.S., biologist Paul Ehrlich amplified Malthusian panic with his 1968 bestseller The Population Bomb (co-authored with Anne Ehrlich). As a Stanford professor and co-founder of Zero Population Growth, he predicted imminent catastrophe:
- “The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death…”
- He warned of U.S. food rationing by 1980, water by 1974, and a “Great Die-Off” killing tens of millions of Americans.
None of it happened. Food production tripled while population doubled; famine deaths plummeted. Yet Ehrlich never retracted his core claims.
He went further, endorsing extreme coercive measures when “voluntary” methods failed:
- - Adding sterilants to water supplies or staple foods.
- - Compulsory sterilization (praising India’s forced programs and urging U.S. aid with helicopters and doctors).
- - A powerful “Department of Population and Environment” with authority to take “whatever steps are necessary.”
- - Withholding food aid from countries refusing aggressive population control.
- - Tax penalties on larger families and other disincentives.Tax penalties on larger families and other disincentives.
Ehrlich called population growth a “cancer” needing excision. His ideas shaped policy debates and influenced real-world abuses.
Ehrlich received dozens of major awards, including the MacArthur “genius” grant in 1990 and the Crafoord Prize (ecology’s Nobel equivalent). He remained a media and scientific darling until his death on March 13, 2026, at age 93.
Ehrlich’s philosophy aligns seamlessly with the Neo-Malthusian infused UN Agenda 21/2030 and school curricula, brainwashing generations that humans destroy the planet and should limit reproduction.
Schoolchildren are being taught that human carbon output is destroying the planet, humans are a cancer/disease and are encouraged not to have children in order to save the planet.[2] [3] One study actually stated, “Humans are Fueling Global Warming Just By Breathing. New Study Claims.” [4]
This philosophy fits perfectly with the push for couples not to have children.
Malthus theory of overpopulation was promoted in the United Nations Agenda 21 program of Sustainable Management of the earth. Agenda 21 started in 1992 and has been taught throughout the public schools’ system since then. Agenda 21 has been followed by Agenda 2030. Every public-school child is exposed to this global governance agenda and curriculum.[5] [6]
Prince Charles, a leader in the sustainable development agenda, was infused with neo-Malthusian ideology and promoted eugenics. He publicly stated, “In the event that I am reincarnated I would like to return as a deadly virus, to contribute something to solving overpopulation.”[7]
Generations of schoolchildren have been brainwashed and fearmongered that if we do not stop having children and restrict our carbon output to net zero, the earth will cease to exist.
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