XXIV - Prevent Procreation

My Dear Rottmouth, Our next objective is crucial: the prevention of procreation. The Enemy, in His infuriating wisdom, often uses children to reveal His plans for goodness and to soften the hearts of even our most hardened patients. These little ones, with their innocence and purity, are beyond our influence, if only for a short period of time, and can change the hearts and minds of our patients in ways that are exceedingly difficult for us to counteract.

The presence of children often brings with it a renewed sense of purpose and a profound realization of the beauty and sanctity of life. This realization can draw your patients closer to the Enemy and His teachings. Therefore, it is imperative that we employ every means at our disposal to prevent them from choosing to have children.

First, encourage a lifestyle that prioritizes personal freedom, career ambitions, and leisure activities over family life. Convince your patient that children are a burden that will restrict their independence and limit their opportunities for personal and professional growth. Promote the idea that the decision to remain child-free is enlightened and progressive, a mark of modernity and self-awareness.

Leverage the environmental concerns we discussed previously. Convince your patients that bringing more children into the world is irresponsible and contributes to overpopulation and environmental degradation. This will align with the growing narrative that choosing not to have children is a selfless act for the planet’s well-being.

The financial burden of raising children is another potent argument. Emphasize the cost of education, healthcare, and general upbringing, painting a picture of financial strain and reduced quality of life. Encourage them to see their financial resources as better spent on personal enjoyment and security rather than on progeny. Keep them far from the Enemy and His promises of provision in all things.

Should your patients find themselves contemplating parenthood, sow seeds of doubt and fear. Highlight the challenges and potential failures of parenting and the irreversible nature of the decision. Make them fear the loss of their current lifestyle and the potential for strained relationships. The uncertainty and anxiety about their ability to be good parents will often be enough to dissuade them.

However, should your patients decide to have children despite these efforts, our focus must shift to perverting their relationship with these little ones. While children often carry an aura of innocence that makes them less susceptible to our influence initially, we must find ways to undermine the parental relationship. We can wound these little ones early by targeting their parents and ensure we ensnare them in generational curses.

You can encourage a parenting style that is overly permissive or excessively controlling. Both extremes serve us and will be detrimental to the child's development and can foster resentment and dysfunction within the family. Promote the idea that the patients should live vicariously through their children, pushing them towards achievements and lifestyles that fulfill the parent's unfulfilled desires, rather than allowing the child to find their own path.

Foster a sense of competition and comparison with other parents. Make your patients constantly measure their parenting against societal standards and the achievements of other children. This will create an environment of stress and inadequacy, leading to strained relationships and emotional distance.

Use technology to further your aims. Encourage your patients to rely heavily on screens and digital devices to occupy their children. This will reduce meaningful interaction and bonding, weaken parental influence, and create a gap that we can exploit as the children grow older.

Promote the narrative that the primary goal of parenting is to ensure the child's success in worldly terms—academic achievement, social status, and financial prosperity. This will distract from the deeper, spiritual nurturing that the Enemy desires. Remember, Rottmouth, if we can target the little ones that do come into this world, we can poison the eventual children they may have.

In our next correspondence, we will delve deeper into how we can target and destroy the environment in which these little ones are raised, ensuring that the familial bonds are weakened and the seeds of dysfunction are sown from an early age.

Your affectionate uncle,

Wormwood