The motto of this new movement of chosen childlessness could be encapsulated by the bumper sticker put out by the Zero Population Growth group in the 1970s:  "MAKE LOVE, NOT BABIES."  This is the precise worldview the Scripture rejects.  Marriage, sex, and children are part of one package.  To deny any part of this wholeness is to reject God’s intention in creation—and His mandate revealed in the Bible.

The sexual revolution has had many manifestations, but we can now see that modern Americans are determined not only to liberate sex for marriage [and even from gender], but also from procreation. 

The Scripture does not even envision married couples who choose not to have children.  The shocking reality is that some Christians have bought into this lifestyle and claim childlessness as a legitimate option.  The rise of modern contraceptives has made this technologically possible.  But the fact remains that though childlessness may be made possible by the contraceptive revolution, it remains a form of rebellion against God's design and order.

Couples are not given the option of chosen childlessness in the biblical revelation.  To the contrary, we are commanded to receive children with joy as God's gifts, and to raise them in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.  We are to find many of our deepest joys and satisfactions in the raising of children within the context of the family.  Those who reject children want to have the joys of sex and marital companionship without the responsibilities of parenthood.  They rely on others to produce and sustain the generations to come.

This epidemic of chosen childlessness will not be corrected by secular rethinking.  In an effort to separate the pleasure of sex from the power of procreation, modern Americans think that sex totally free from constraint or conception is their right.  Children, of course, do represent a serious constraint on the life of parents.  Parenthood is not a hobby, but represents one of the most crucial opportunities for the making of saints found in this life.