Last updated on January 21st, 2021 at 11:16 am<\/p>\n
Serbia is\nthe largest country in Southeast Europe. Yet in terms of all unpopular\nparameters, it doesn\u2019t lag behind the rest of Europe: it has a negative growth rate,\nand its population is shrinking by almost 40,000 people a year. The median age\nis 43.2 years. According to the Serbian Statistical Office<\/a>, there were 36,000 new marriages\nin 2018, with the average age of the groom being 34, and of the bride 31. That\nsociety is facing a grave crisis is evidenced by the fact that there are 275\ndivorces per 1,000 marriages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It is\ncommon knowledge that the average of two children per woman is needed for\nreplacement-level fertility in a country. However, the total fertility rate in\nSerbia is 1.48 children per woman on average. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The grim\nstatistics do not end there. The official number of abortions in Serbia is\naround 17,000 anually, but the unofficial data drive this bleak figure to an\napocalyptic 150,000\u2013200,000 a year! In public hospitals, abortion costs only\ncharged 35 euros, while in private clinics the price ranges from 50 to 500\neuros. If the unofficial data are correct, and there are many reasons to assume\nthey are, it follows that one in five women in Serbia have an abortion each\nyear. The law allows girls as young as 16 to have an abortion without parental consent.\nT-shirts and notebooks with images of cartoon characters, which girls commonly\nsport in their teens, speak sufficiently about their maturity to make such\nlife-changing decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For\ncenturies, Serbia held tradition in high esteem and valued the natural family; however,\ntoday, in a country where 85% of its population is Eastern Orthodox Christians,\n5% Roman Catholics, 3% Muslims and 1% Protestants, the Prime Minister is openly\ngay and unabashedly promotes \u201cgender ideology\u201d. Naturally, the PM was not\nelected by anyone in any elections; the people were deceived, and the PM foisted\non them through a decision from \u201cabove\u201d, i.e.<\/em> from those same persons\nstriving to replace the culture of life and impose a culture of death on all\nnations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The issue\nof euthanasia has not yet made its legal presence felt in Serbian society,\nthough it is incorporated in the draft version of the new Civil Code. In any case,\nwith 60,000 people emigrating from Serbia each year, looking for a better life,\nit is safe to say that in a demographic and social sense, we are already euthanizing\nour nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Serbian\nsociety and the media artfully conceal decades-long problems of alcohol,\ntobacco and gambling addictions \u2013 and, as of recently, internet addiction as\nwell \u2013 which are doing a fine job disintegrating the healthy core of the\nfamily. Moreover, various forms of vice are advertised as a preferable\nlifestyle, and narcotics are widely available \u2013 even in schoolyards. The\nSerbian media are flooded with reality shows, rife with cheap entertainment and\nselfish irresponsibility to one\u2019s health and life, paying no heed to the\nconsequences of such behavior on society as a whole \u2013 their only goal being\nenormous and easy-made profit. Social responsibility and an educational\ninfluence on people, notably children and youth, is practically non-existent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When we add\nthe poor economic and financial position of people, corruption and crime rising\nacross the board, unhealed wounds from recent civil wars in the Balkans,\nthreatened rights to the freedom of religion and the confiscation of the Serbian Orthodox Church\u2019s property in\nMontenegro<\/a>, the\nsocio-demographic engineering at the hands of global neoliberal powers in\ncreating a migrant crisis<\/a>, and constant social and political\nturmoil in the region, it is clear that the family in Serbia is under threat, and\nfamily life is the least appealing form of a union in which people, notably the\nyouth, seek as part of their life\u2019s goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Though the\nalarm went off a long time ago, we don\u2019t have the right to retreat. The false\nnarrative about overpopulation and the neoliberal demographic engineering are\nbeing rejected by an increasing number of countries in Europe and beyond. The\nworld always needs good people \u2013 we can never have enough of them. Hence, the\nonly solution is for all of us, across the meridians, to join forces and\nrestore the family model of society to its rightful place at the top. This\nbattle will require that we all do our share \u2013 each and every one of us, as members\nof the human race, as individuals created in the image and likeness of God,\nregardless of our many differences. I am therefore honored and proud to be part\nof the team led by Brian Brown and IOF in this dramatic battle for every human\nlife and for restoring the value of life in a community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In our\nrecent history, our beloved Serbian Patriarch Pavle of blessed memory disclosed\nto us a great secret of the joy of life in these wise words: <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhen a\nperson is born, the whole world rejoices, and only he cries. May he live such a\nlife that when he dies, the whole world should cry, and only he should\nrejoice.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93,"featured_media":11225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"\"I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind.\" - Fyodor Dostoevsky","format":"standard","video":"","gallery":"","source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override":[{"single_blog_custom":"","sidebar":"","second_sidebar":"","share_position":"","share_float_style":"","post_date_format":"","post_date_format_custom":"","post_reading_time_wpm":"","zoom_button_out_step":"1","zoom_button_in_step":"1","number_popup_post":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"","single_post_gallery_size":""}],"trending_post_position":"","trending_post_label":""},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"808"},"jnews_social_meta":{"fb_title":"","fb_description":"","fb_image":"","twitter_title":"","twitter_description":"","twitter_image":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[804,805,808,695],"tags":[451,911,2143,2146,2140,2145],"class_list":["post-13063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-foreground","category-life","category-opinion","tag-brian-brown","tag-family","tag-zhivot","tag-me-unarodna-organizatsija-za-porodits","tag-poroditsa","tag-svetski-kongres-poroditsa"],"yoast_head":"\n