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Professor Nicolás Sánchez García
Catholic University of Valencia "San Vicente Mártir"
Pontifical John Paul II Institute, Spanish Section

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There is something bitter and perverse about people who maintain that children are the enemy of humankind. Children are not the cause of poverty in the world.

"It is not true that the increase in the number of human beings is the reason why there is poverty in the world. We know that poverty and the ills that go with it are the result of injustice. An unjust system means that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. There has never before been such a contrast between rich and poor. In this situation, the family is the first victim. For children, who are invited to the banquet of life, the worst kind of poverty is to live without a family which welcomes, loves and educates them. Without the family, poverty becomes more acute. Moreover, the overwhelming forces of economic might may even destroy another essential element of life, the ecological balance of creation."

Declaration from Santo Domingo by the Pontifical Council for the Family, Pontifical Commission for Latin America and Latin American Episcopal Conference, 12 October 2002.

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We have to say "that's enough" to the lies that they tell us about the population explosion. Poverty is caused by the refusal of rich countries to share their wealth and to distribute resources more fairly, beyond media campaigns which only mask the situation of the first world, which lives only for itself. In this context, the family is the last defense that shields men and women in the developing world from extreme poverty. If we destroy the family, we shall be condemning a huge proportion of the world's population to a life of abject poverty.