The John-Henry Westen Show - Parenting Advice from a Mother of 13

00:00:00.000 40% of the calls to our hotline are men. Men are natural providers and protectors. They want to help that woman. It could be the father of the baby, it could be the boyfriend, could be the husband. We work with over 3,000 agencies across the United States and Canada and as far away as Puerto Rico, we get calls and we can send them to a local agency that will offer pro-life, pro-family help, not anything that includes contraception or abortion.

00:00:30.760 When you have a large family, some people find that offensive. They might even ask you, what are you doing to the environment? How dare you? Well, it's interesting because how do you answer that question? I've got a fairly large family. We had eight children. My wife calls herself just eight on her email. But so this is where we're at. And how do we answer those questions? What about contraception and having a large family?

00:00:59.300 Is that a crazy thing to do? Well, we've got someone with us who's actually proven that you can have many children and survive. Often that's a question. Yeah, you talk, you're the guy, who cares? What about the woman in the equation?

00:01:13.660 Is she still alive? Well, we've got with us someone who had seven children naturally and then adopted another six. So a mother of 13. We've got Marianne Kuharski here, whom you probably all know as the head and founder of Pro-Life Across America. This is the John Henry Weston Show. Stay tuned.

00:01:34.300 John Henry Weston Show.

00:02:04.280 Honored to be asked, John Henry. It's good to talk with you again.

00:02:07.980 Let's begin, as you always do, with the sign of the cross. In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

00:02:14.960 I know you must have for many, many years been asked this question about having a large family because every time, you know, parents are out there, young parents even, they only have three or maybe four children with them and they're shopping or they're doing whatever.

00:02:30.400 How can you have that many children? What do you respond?

00:02:34.380 Actually, I even wrote a whole chapter in one of my books about having a large family and how to answer some of those criticisms. Some of it, you know, I guess I would just say, in fact, one of the titles of my books is Raising Kids with Humor and Prayer.

00:02:47.900 Because you really need to have both a sense of humor and I would say pray. Pray for the people who do not understand about raising a family.

00:02:55.540 But, I mean, we've heard all sorts of things like, don't you know how to stop that? And isn't that enough? And how come you're always pregnant or you always have a baby with you or whatever?

00:03:04.920 And sometimes I would just say to people, well, when you're good at something, you're good at it. But you have to have it. I have other comments, too.

00:03:13.960 But you just really do have to have a sense of humor and just know that this is what God is calling us to do.

00:03:20.020 And you get kind of tough skinned about it, but we have to be very gentle with those people who really, really don't understand.

00:03:26.140 It's amazing to me that we would never go up to someone and ask, don't you feel kind of selfish about owning that great big yacht of yours or that big million dollar mansion?

00:03:35.440 We don't ever, ever accuse somebody of being selfish or being greedy or whatever.

00:03:40.620 And yet people don't think, I've had people step out of their grocery line and come over to mine when they saw me with an armful of kids and say, are these all your kids?

00:03:49.020 And I'll say yes. And they'd say, well, that's disgusting.

00:03:51.340 I mean, how do you even answer that except to just smile and pray?

00:03:55.240 One time I just said to a lady, well, if you think this is something, you should see all the ones at home because you have to have a sense of humor about it.

00:04:02.940 But but then pray for them because they really don't know the real true treasures of life are our children.

00:04:09.580 I think my my wife took a page out of one of your books because when asked one time, don't you know what causes that?

00:04:15.920 She says, oh, yes, but we've chosen to keep our toothbrushes in separate glasses now.

00:04:21.340 So one of the common, you know, arguments is that, well, you can use contraception and that will solve all your problems.

00:04:34.000 What for you in your married life, in your experience, says why you shouldn't use contraception?

00:04:40.960 You know, there's something that happens. And of course, we've had our we had our surprise babies.

00:04:45.580 We we actually had two children born to us and then started adopting.

00:04:50.700 We adopted for what they called special need kids from Vietnam and the Philippines or whatever.

00:04:56.780 And then we had our surprise pregnancy. And I hadn't had a baby in nine years.

00:05:00.720 We had to start all over again. And there was a blessing that happened.

00:05:05.860 Both my husband and I looked at each other and thought, wow, there's a reason why God is calling us to live differently than other people.

00:05:12.660 And it changed our whole life. We saw more miracles than we would have ever seen before.

00:05:18.040 I just encourage people. I always feel bad when they go ahead and get sterilized or get on the pill or think that's enough.

00:05:25.620 And I always tell them, you know, the the joy is anything after three is a wash.

00:05:30.420 It's it becomes easy because you become the expert and you now know that you're the best judge of your family and your children and what you should do rather than all those who write the the so-called expert books on parenting.

00:05:44.000 But it is a matter of trusting God. And if you don't have that trust, you're going to miss some joys in life.

00:05:49.240 And I I can't tell you, John Henry, how many people I've met, even as I was raising my kids who said later, I wish I hadn't done what I had done.

00:05:57.960 We stopped at four. We stopped at three or we stopped at two. And it's too late for us.

00:06:04.140 But when I see how much fun you're having with your kids, I have to say it keeps you young.

00:06:09.920 You have to stay young. You have to know what they're listening to. You have to know what they're what they're learning in school.

00:06:15.540 You can't you have no time for old age. You really don't because you have to keep young with them.

00:06:21.200 So it's a lot of fun. They kept me young.

00:06:23.940 That is another question. I think what happens is once they get OK, well, we can be open to life.

00:06:30.540 What are we going to do about raising kids?

00:06:34.900 It's a challenge to conceive of having a large family just by itself.

00:06:39.260 But how are you supposed to raise a child?

00:06:41.980 How are you supposed to have enough love for for the one child and for a second child?

00:06:45.940 Often in the very beginning, they think that.

00:06:48.260 But beyond that comes the issue of raising children and teenagers in our day and age.

00:06:54.860 Ah, what are you supposed to do?

00:06:56.820 I love your books on this, but if you would give us some of your wisdom, I think that'd be awesome.

00:07:01.460 I always say, well, I'm I'm Italian.

00:07:03.240 I said I've got a Filipino. I've got two Vietnamese.

00:07:06.000 I've got a black. I've got an Indian.

00:07:07.540 I've got a Mexican-American. And I always tell the kids that I'm really the boy.

00:07:12.340 I run like a mafia.

00:07:13.600 I said, you don't need to join a gang.

00:07:15.740 You don't need to have you aren't going to have time for drugs or gangs or anything because we're your gang.

00:07:20.880 Well, I want to. I do.

00:07:22.120 I and I I ruled with a strong arm.

00:07:24.840 And I think that is the point about parenting.

00:07:26.960 If we love our children, what's our number one goal?

00:07:30.280 What is our number one goal for our kids?

00:07:32.280 And it isn't a college education and it isn't a bike of their own or clothes of their own or a room of their own, which my kids thought they, you know, missed in life because they didn't have a room of their own or they had somebody else's bike or clothes or whatever.

00:07:44.620 Our number one goal is to get them to heaven.

00:07:47.140 And in mind, that means we really have to be very forceful and aggressive about what we want.

00:07:52.840 We want the best for our kids.

00:07:54.300 We really, really and we want to protect them like a fence, a fence is there to protect us from what could hurt us on the outside.

00:08:01.680 And that's who we are as parents.

00:08:03.200 We want to have we want to know what our kids are learning, what our kids are watching, and we may have to supervise it or in some cases have them be too busy so they can't get involved in something we know that will hurt them.

00:08:15.660 And so both John and I made up our minds that we were going to we watch what schools we send our kids to.

00:08:21.580 We control the TV.

00:08:22.720 In fact, I didn't like the television, and so I started buying old movies.

00:08:27.320 And our kids at first went crazy that we were going to watch all these old black and white movies.

00:08:31.700 But now I had a kid in the seminary in Rome, and he, for Christmas, requested that I send him all the old movies so he could show the other guys, the other seminarians, the old movies.

00:08:44.160 And so to a son that's now living in New York City, I always kid him and call him Mr. Hotshot because he lives in New York City.

00:08:51.740 And yet what did he ask for Christmas with some of the old movies.

00:08:55.320 So there's, you know, there's good lessons to be learned.

00:08:58.420 There's things that we can do as parents, even in this day and age of the cell phone, which I don't recommend parents give to their kids, that can control their environment and make them feel.

00:09:08.560 Oftentimes kids join gangs, they get pregnant, they do other things, because it's their way of feeling a sense of belonging.

00:09:17.080 And we as Catholic parents want our kids to know you belong to us.

00:09:22.060 We are your father.

00:09:23.920 My pastor used to say parents are the first missionaries of their children.

00:09:27.500 And even when you think the kids aren't watching, I had seven teenagers at once.

00:09:31.660 Trust me, I've heard of every kind of thing that can happen, especially when you've got kids who came into our family and older in life.

00:09:38.560 But we have to be their gang.

00:09:40.900 We have to be, let them know that we're so nuts about you that we're going to ground you if we have to, in order to protect you from something that we think will hurt you.

00:09:50.520 I hope people hear you. The wisdom of that is so profound. It might sound really simple, but it is so profound.

00:10:00.880 They do want to know where they belong. And being part of the family gang is just incredible.

00:10:07.400 It's true. In fact, I used to tell them I'm Italian, so this is our mafia.

00:10:11.700 And the kids at first didn't understand, and then they would laugh because they would say to my mother, in fact, a couple of my kids, I heard they would tell some of their friends,

00:10:19.580 you know, I would like to do this, but if you knew my mom, it isn't worth it because they knew they would be grounded. 0.75

00:10:26.400 You know, I had some cardinal rules I'd like to share, and I use them when I give presentations to other people.

00:10:32.420 But I always say that my cardinal rules were that we want to play together.

00:10:36.680 We want to take time to play with our kids. And I don't mean trips to Disneyland.

00:10:41.520 I mean, even just going to the local park or taking a vacation.

00:10:45.260 We took vacations with our kids every year. That sounds crazy, but we'd have this great, big, huge van.

00:10:50.520 Sometimes we'd have to have two cars, and we would go on vacations.

00:10:54.120 We had wonderful trips, my kids still remember. And I think our kids have seen more sites than anyway.

00:10:58.900 So play together, pray together. And that means mass together.

00:11:02.580 And that means you may not concentrate much in mass because you're watching all these other kids or trying to keep them controlled.

00:11:08.920 Sit in the front pew so that kids can see what we're really worshiping and what we're doing.

00:11:14.100 But we need to let our kids know there's nothing more powerful than a kid scene, not the mother, but the father on his knees and the father leading prayer.

00:11:23.240 That will stick with kids no matter what happens.

00:11:26.220 So I always say pray together, play together, eat together.

00:11:30.020 You know, John Henry, if I leave your audience with anything, that is a lost art.

00:11:35.100 I give whole presentations now on why eating together is so important.

00:11:39.480 In fact, there's secular magazines that now prove that kids that eat with their parents and their families at least several times a week are less likely to join gangs or drugs or pregnancies.

00:11:50.820 So we Catholics, I think our Lord set the tone for us at what the first miracle and even the last miracle, the last supper and the miracle at Cana.

00:12:00.180 I think he was trying to let us know that being together as family and rejoicing and celebrating and eating together is very, very good.

00:12:08.700 And then, of course, my fourth point is discipline is love.

00:12:12.240 If we love our kids and we're really nuts about them, then we won't let harm come to them, which means we might not be liked.

00:12:19.840 I always say to my kids, I'm not your friend, I'm your mother, you know.

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00:12:47.840 And now, back to the video.

00:12:49.240 For parents who are in their later years, their children then are in their late teens, early 20s and whatnot,

00:12:58.560 and making those decisions which affect the rest of their lives, but they aren't all perfect.

00:13:04.500 They're going off in ways that you don't want them to do, and it's killing you inside that they're doing these things.

00:13:10.920 What's your advice for them?

00:13:12.200 How do parents whose children are going off the rails deal with that?

00:13:17.260 Very hard situations.

00:13:18.880 They're in a situation where they want you to attend a marriage that might be totally inappropriate.

00:13:25.900 Either some kind of, you know, married someone who's already been married and divorced and no annulment or anything,

00:13:32.180 or in, you know, some kind of homosexual relationship or things like that.

00:13:36.540 Where do you go advising parents on these most difficult situations?

00:13:41.760 We really want to be always open to our children, and we always want to let them know we love them, no matter what.

00:13:48.720 Our love, we love our children, but we don't love every single thing they do.

00:13:53.180 We love them and we pray for them.

00:13:55.600 I don't attend marriages that are invalid, period.

00:13:58.600 My kids know it.

00:13:59.340 They wouldn't even invite me because I wouldn't be there, and neither would my husband.

00:14:02.620 We just, we don't.

00:14:03.840 We pray for them.

00:14:04.660 I always tell the story of my brother who was married three times, and even my own mother was upset with me because I wouldn't go to the wedding.

00:14:11.960 And I said, I have 13 good reasons why I can't go to my brother's wedding, because all those eyes are looking at John and I,

00:14:18.940 and if we accept that third marriage as being an okay marriage in some, you know, judge's office, that's not going to, that's, doesn't.

00:14:27.480 But I called my brother and said, you know, I love you.

00:14:30.480 I'm praying for you.

00:14:31.440 I'm praying you come back to the faith, and we have to let our kids know that, too.

00:14:35.360 Whether it's a homosexual relationship or an invalid marriage or they've just decided to leave the church, there's nothing more heartbreaking to a parent.

00:14:43.740 And I've been there, so I know.

00:14:45.880 Nothing more heartbreaking than knowing that your kids are not following the church teaching or they're not living their Catholic faith after, you know, all you think of after all we've done.

00:14:57.220 But, you know, our Lord was betrayed.

00:14:59.700 Our Lord didn't.

00:15:00.380 He had people walk away.

00:15:01.660 He had whole audiences walk away once he told them what would be involved in following him.

00:15:07.980 So who am I, Marianne Koharski, to think that all my kids are going to do what I say, even though I'm Italian?

00:15:13.800 It doesn't work.

00:15:15.520 And so it was a big swallow, John Henry, of humility for me to know I couldn't control my adult kids.

00:15:22.540 But I can love them, and I can pray for them.

00:15:25.900 And once in a while, the old Marianne will slip up. 0.58

00:15:28.800 And if I see an article that I think might touch them, like once in a while, there's an annual Lenten series that comes out on 10 good reasons to come back to the Catholic Church or 10 good reasons to go to confession.

00:15:40.700 And I cut it out.

00:15:42.160 I mail it to those who are not in the church.

00:15:44.820 And I put, and your mother loves you and is praying for you.

00:15:47.820 And they can't help but, you know, smile.

00:15:50.540 And they know in their heart of hearts that we are praying for them.

00:15:53.980 And that's what we need to do.

00:15:55.200 So, you know, we Catholics are so blessed.

00:15:57.060 We have an arsenal of faith.

00:15:59.200 We have the saints, their patron saints.

00:16:01.260 We have all sorts of special saints to pray to.

00:16:04.060 We have their guardian angels.

00:16:05.480 We can send our guardian angels to their guardian angels to pray for them.

00:16:09.200 We have mass that we can participate in every single day.

00:16:12.360 We have the greatest gift, the rosary from the Blessed Mother, that we can be saying for our children.

00:16:18.360 My kids all know I use every one of those weapons every single day.

00:16:22.520 In fact, I'm blessed to be a third-order Carmelite, so I can reach into that arsenal as well.

00:16:28.940 And it just reminds me to keep those prayers focused on my family and on my community and, of course, our nation, which needs it very much.

00:16:38.320 So that's all I can do.

00:16:40.780 I wish I could say I was successful in all 13 kids and grandkids are going to the Catholic Church, but they're not.

00:16:47.040 You founded an organization called Pro-Life Across America, and you're known as the Billboard People.

00:16:53.720 You've got these incredibly beautiful babies on billboards, huge billboards all over America.

00:17:01.200 And they're really striking, both in their beauty, their color.

00:17:04.600 The messages are so touching.

00:17:06.440 They really move people because you've got these gorgeous, gorgeous little babies, and how can anybody say anything else?

00:17:14.680 And they talk about conception, about the heartbeat being so close to after conception.

00:17:19.800 It's just incredible stuff.

00:17:21.880 What led you to starting this?

00:17:23.320 People would say, you've had such a large family.

00:17:25.660 What are you doing with something else for?

00:17:27.480 You know, I always said to the kids, I didn't have time to join a bowling league or to play bridge.

00:17:33.000 But I'm an adopted kid, John Henry.

00:17:35.820 I came from an orphanage when I was nine months old.

00:17:38.600 And I just tell my kids, I'll not go to my grave and not know I did everything I could to oppose this terrible, terrible law that struck down all of the gnaws we had that protected both moms and babies and gave us abortion to live birth in the United States.

00:17:55.020 And you have it in Canada as well.

00:17:56.460 So I started out working.

00:17:58.300 I did politics.

00:17:59.220 I was a national delegate to a Democratic Party, then switched parties to the Republican Party.

00:18:04.180 I tried politics.

00:18:05.400 I tried speaking in schools.

00:18:07.280 I'm still speaking to the audiences, not so much in schools as in talking about family life now and pro-life across America.

00:18:15.160 But I also did a lot of work with women who were pregnant. 0.95

00:18:18.780 In fact, we even had some women live with us, believe it or not, and counseled women. 0.94

00:18:22.960 And it would bother me to know that I could look out.

00:18:26.300 We had all of this stuff we needed to help pregnant women, but no one knew they were there.

00:18:30.380 So we started doing bus ads in Minnesota.

00:18:32.940 And I thought, well, you have to be near a bus lane to see these ads.

00:18:36.400 So then we got bigger and did a few billboards.

00:18:38.900 And people started donating to us to help us keep doing the billboards.

00:18:42.500 It's easy to ask for money when you don't take a salary.

00:18:45.000 So I don't take a salary here at Pro-Life Across America.

00:18:47.660 It's really our apostolate, my husband and I.

00:18:50.120 He believes in it like I do.

00:18:52.060 And now I have some of my own kids working for me.

00:18:54.620 All the babies you see are babies of people who donate to us.

00:18:59.160 So that's the requirement is that they have to be supporters of ours as well.

00:19:02.960 And it's our way of saying thank you to show their babies on a billboard.

00:19:06.800 We use very touching and tender ads.

00:19:09.880 We don't do anything really harsh.

00:19:11.840 Number one, the outdoor ad company wouldn't let us put a picture of a bloody baby on a billboard.

00:19:16.040 But number two, about half or more of the people who call our hotline, and we now average about 400 to 450 calls a month to our hotline, from all of our ads, our billboard, our radio, our internet ads all feature a hotline.

00:19:31.980 About half of those callers are people who've been through one abortion experience already.

00:19:36.000 So we need to want to rope them into the pro-life family.

00:19:41.040 And we thought the tenderness, we had a woman who called from Portland, Oregon, and she said, I just felt by the tenderness of your ad, you would help me too.

00:19:49.100 She'd never told another soul she had an abortion 35 years ago and was suffering from it.

00:19:54.380 The most interesting thing, John Henry, 40% of the calls to our hotline are men.

00:19:59.740 Men are natural providers and protectors.

00:20:02.960 They want to help that woman.

00:20:04.960 It could be the father of the baby.

00:20:06.580 It could be the boyfriend.

00:20:07.620 It could be the husband.

00:20:09.080 It could be we had a man call and said, my ex-wife is pushing my daughter to have an abortion. 1.00

00:20:13.440 I don't feel good about it.

00:20:14.720 I saw your billboard.

00:20:15.980 Do you have any help for her?

00:20:18.320 So we work with over 3,000 agencies across the United States and Canada and as far away as Puerto Rico.

00:20:25.840 We get calls and we can send them to a local agency that will offer pro-life, pro-family help, not anything that includes contraception or abortion.

00:20:37.200 And it's a blessing.

00:20:39.020 It's just a blessing to be able to be on this end of the spectrum and help people.

00:20:43.180 So we're not political.

00:20:44.980 I have strong feelings on politics, but we're totally here to be education and service to those who need our help.

00:20:52.480 And again, it was because we tried to help people and they didn't know we existed.

00:20:56.540 So we're kind of the, what can I say, the visual aid of all those pregnancy centers, pro-life pregnancy centers that need a voice or need a vocal or a visual.

00:21:07.500 So when people call our hotline, we send them to that local agency.

00:21:11.760 So oftentimes I speak at those agencies for fundraisers for those pro-life groups.

00:21:17.120 So it's, it's a joy to see who we're connecting with.

00:21:20.880 One of the things I'd like to ask you about is your children's involvement in your pro-life work.

00:21:28.180 Because, so yes, it is true.

00:21:31.320 As you mentioned earlier, the example of the father in praying, in being a spiritual leader of the home is absolutely fundamental in the practice of the faith of the children afterward.

00:21:40.520 But one of the things, one of the findings from a study that I read once detailed, not only in praying, but also in an active apostolate or ministry life.

00:21:52.480 That tends to solidify the children in terms of their practice of faith.

00:21:57.420 They're sticking to the beliefs in life and family and so on.

00:22:00.960 What's your experience on that score?

00:22:02.660 I'm the extrovert and my husband is an introvert.

00:22:05.160 So I do, most of the speaking, I used to be able to rope him into doing Cana dinners once in a while.

00:22:10.820 And he always objected, but he always did them with me.

00:22:13.340 And we always had a lot of fun because we tell the truth, you know, about what it's like and what our marriage has been like and whatever.

00:22:19.600 But our kids watched us and they watched John, my husband.

00:22:25.300 And John is involved.

00:22:26.780 John, by the way, is our behind the scenes treasurer.

00:22:30.320 We're independently audited because we're big.

00:22:32.600 So it's not like either one of us, neither one of us take a salary.

00:22:36.240 Well, I take that back.

00:22:37.220 I get $1 because somebody wrote in once and said, well, she must be making so much money.

00:22:41.840 She's not listing an honor IRS, you know, our income tax.

00:22:45.620 So the board voted to give me a dollar.

00:22:47.900 So at least it shows I'm acknowledging that I could get some money.

00:22:51.200 But my husband doesn't take any money.

00:22:53.360 We both do this as our apostolate.

00:22:55.760 And our kids all know we have quite a few of our kids who are involved now,

00:22:59.820 which is such a blessing to see behind the scenes.

00:23:03.260 We have a daughter-in-law from Vietnam who is helping John as a treasurer.

00:23:08.400 She has a degree in accounting.

00:23:11.420 And we have one daughter who helped build a web page, another son who helped with our web page.

00:23:16.780 We have another daughter who does all of our outreach, another daughter, Angie, you met her previously,

00:23:22.240 who she lines up all my speaking and also does all of our marketing things.

00:23:29.740 So we've got quite a few.

00:23:31.540 I would say at least six of our kids are involved in one way or another in Pro-Life Across America.

00:23:36.460 And the other ones are pretty busy having babies. 0.60

00:23:38.640 Or I have a son that's a priest and some other kids that are out of town.

00:23:42.560 But it's amazing to me.

00:23:44.180 And we never have asked our kids for money.

00:23:45.820 But almost all of our kids are donating to Pro-Life Across America.

00:23:49.720 So we're very blessed that they see the importance of this work as well.

00:23:56.060 So that's been a blessing to us, a personal blessing to us to see.

00:24:00.140 Is it okay with you if we do a life funder for you?

00:24:02.860 So our donors, we have a GoFundMe alternative, like a crowdfunding site.

00:24:07.920 Would you like us to set up one for Pro-Life Across America?

00:24:10.840 You know, John Henry, that would be a blessing.

00:24:12.840 This was the hardest year I've been through.

00:24:14.980 We have to, we rely on tons of money because all of ours go out to advertising.

00:24:20.680 So advertising dollars, I have to sign contracts.

00:24:23.580 I always tell all the advertisers we work with, I never pay full price for anything because I'm a mom of 13.

00:24:29.700 And so I have to bargain.

00:24:31.500 But in order to get good prices, you usually have to sign long-range contracts.

00:24:35.840 And the problem is, is that when people get scared about the economy or where this president's going with the war,

00:24:41.000 I had a couple of donors say to me, well, my IRA took a nosedive this year.

00:24:45.440 We can't give as much as usual.

00:24:47.160 That affects what's happening.

00:24:49.180 So, and then the other thing that really happened, it was good news, the Roe v. Wade decision knocked down by the Supreme Court.

00:24:56.820 But what happened is we had a number of our supporters call and say, well, now, is your work as necessary as it was before?

00:25:04.420 Oh, my goodness.

00:25:05.520 It's real.

00:25:06.260 Planned Parenthood put $83 million just like that into advertising.

00:25:10.560 They knew what they were doing.

00:25:11.880 They're advertising all of the states that you can now go to.

00:25:15.560 And, of course, the corporate America is following suit because they know it's cheaper to kill a little baby and keep that mother working than to help pay for time off and the things that the mother would need in order to nurture the child and give birth to the child. 0.99

00:25:32.980 So our work is needed more than ever.

00:25:34.580 But we actually were on a freeze until two weeks ago.

00:25:38.140 Finally, I wrote a letter to all of our big supporters and just said, we're on a freeze.

00:25:43.280 This is the first fall we've been through that we can't have a new fall campaign because the funds are just not there for us.

00:25:50.380 We have to be sure we can pay the bills we have.

00:25:52.620 So we've been hurting a little bit, and we're kind of just getting a little bit of the advertising, not dollars out there again, but not enough to really do a full-fledged campaign nationwide.

00:26:06.020 You can go to LifeFunder.com, and you'll be able to fund these awesome billboards all around America.

00:26:13.220 Marianne Kaharski, I can't thank you enough for coming on the show, for doing what you're doing, for sharing with us your beautiful reflections on your life, on your openness to life, and on your great pro-life apostolate.

00:26:24.560 May God bless you.

00:26:25.820 Thank you, John Henry.

00:26:26.880 God bless you, and thank you for the privilege of being on your program.

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00:26:40.260 We'll see you next time.

00:26:43.040 Hi, everyone.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - November 22, 2022

Parenting Advice from a Mother of 13

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