People who live without children are not only socially ostracized. But also punished financially by the state. That needs to change.
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Elizabeth Dostert
“In those days, Emperor Augustus issued the order that all the inhabitants of the empire be entered in tax lists. This happened for the first time when Quirinius was governor. Everyone went to his city to be entered. So Joseph also left the city of Nazareth up in Galilee to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David. He wanted to be registered with Mary his betrothed, who was with child. When they were there, the time came for Mary of her confinement, and she gave birth to her son, the firstborn. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and put him in a manger, because there was no room in the inn.”