NFP: The Long List
NFP: The Long List
By Ellen Gable Hrkach
March 1, 2010
Natural Family Planning provides many benefits which not only promote healthy living, this remarkable method of birth regulation is also environmentally friendly and fosters authentic marital love. Here is a list of NFP’s many benefits:
NFP is safe
There are no harmful side effects for either the husband or wife. It is completely safe, 100 percent natural, and involves no potentially harmful devices or drugs.
NFP is healthy
There are no pills, invasive procedures or long-term drugs. Women who use NFP know more about their bodies and can discover health problems sooner.
NFP is effective
Used and taught properly, NFP can be 99 percent effective in avoiding pregnancy. In our experience as an NFP user couple, we have never had an unplanned pregnancy in 28 years. NFP can also assist some couples in achieving much-wanted pregnancies without chemicals and operations.
NFP costs very little to use
In this economy, NFP is very cost effective. Other than the cost of the course, materials and the replacement of thermometers, NFP costs very little to use over a couple’s 20 or 30 years of fertility, compared to purchasing condoms, diaphragms, pills and other chemicals or operations.
NFP is environmentally friendly
NFP does no harm to the environment. Charts can be recycled and there are no chemicals or other devices used.
NFP is marriage insurance
In a study done by the Couple to Couple League, couples who used NFP had a less than two percent risk of divorce compared to the national secular average of 50 percent.
NFP is morally acceptable
Married couples who use NFP are spiritually healthy because NFP fosters authentic marital love and allows a couple to love as Christ loves: freely, totally, faithfully and fruitfully.
NFP works with irregular cycles
NFP is not like the old rhythm method, which depended on regular cycles. NFP’s charting system works with a woman’s present signs of fertility.
For more information on NFP:
www.ccli.org
www.serena.ca
www.woomb.org
http://www.creightonmodel.com/
Next month: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About NFP But Were Afraid to Ask
Copyright 2010 Ellen Gable Hrkach
Ellen lives with her husband, James, and their five sons in Pakenham, Ontario, Canada. She and her husband have been certified NFP teachers for the Couple to Couple League for 25 years and have worked for 26 years in marriage preparation and chastity education. Ellen is a freelance writer and author of "Emily's Hope," a Catholic novel, which won an Honorable Mention Award (Religious Fiction) in the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2006. Her second novel, "In Name Only,"was released last June and has recently been awarded the Gold Medal (First Place) in Religious Fiction at the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards. She writes frequently for CCL's Family Foundations magazine and she and her husband create the "Family Life" cartoons. Her website is www.fullquiverpublishing.com Her blog "Plot Line and Sinker" is at http://ellengable.wordpress.com. Contact her at: info@fullquiverpublishing.com