Natasha Padfield’s letter ‘Hearts filled with love’ (April 30) encourages me to state once more what I had written the previous week in ‘Hearts of stone’.

The subject of my letter was about abortion and the reality that generates and encourages the abortion mentality. That reality is the non-acknowledgement of God who creates each of us lovingly and teaches us what unconditional love really is.

This type of love is His gift and not just an instinct. Once we ignore and reject the Fountain of unconditional love, our love becomes conditional, calculating, selfish. (It used to be called the ‘me-first generation’.)

The current numbers of marriages and birth rate point to an inner malaise. The correspondent is quite right to point out so many factors that militate against family building. It is our prideful prosperity that is falling so crushingly on many parents.

Who is responsible for this state of affairs? All of us, one way or another. We all need to ask pardon from God and intercede for one another.

“The love for money is the root of all evil. Some people eager for money have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs” (1 Timothy, 6:10). We see this being played out before us. 

Money and wealth is the child we have generated and it is turning out to be tyrannical. Who would want another child?