Ok, so we have to sort out a 1-minute speech for our religion education lesson on a subject given to each of us individually. Mine is this:
The Christian marriage service should not include prayers for children to be born into the marriage as it places unfair expectations on a couple.
I think I agree, but I really don’t know where to begin to explain. This is for tomorrow. Help me. Please.
Weird assignment. I guess you could talk about how not all married people plan to have children, some get married when they’re older than child-rearing age, and how the marriage ceremony should focus on the two planning to get married, not the family they may or may not intend to have.
Huh, weird assignment.
Or you could just not do it, since religious education classes are crap. I’m not religious, but even for somebody who is. . . I’ve taken the classes before, and they just keep telling you the same few things repetedly. Maybe yours is different, but christ, I spent like 5 years of hearing the same things over and over and over again.
There could be fertility problems which would cause more upset if the couple thought it was expected of them to have children.
Also how far would they be expected to go in the attaining of getting pregnant. They would feel more torn with the ethics of medical intervention versus accepting no children.
Continuing moogles point there could be a case where the child born would have deformations or a bad sickness that they could know about before they choose to have a child. eg if the mother has AIDS, then the child would also. Shouldn’t it be the couple’s choice to whether there should be prayers for a child?
There is also a new problem to this: the marriage of same sex couples. Unless the prayers for a child include adoption.
I wouldn’t think the teacher would intend to include same sex couples. I should have thought of Alex’s comment. 
Hmmm, thanks. This is all good stuff. I’ll add it in, and then maybe I’ll be able to fill a minute. Thanks!
the teacher probably didn’t intend that but i hear it is now legal and practiced in some parts of the world.
Good luck with your speech. I always hated doing those. Oh well at least it’s only a minute long.