It is God who gifts children to parents (Ps 127:3) and it is God who shuts the womb of a woman to keep her barren as well (Gen 30:2). While God has set a biological law in place that when a man knows a woman, the union will result in one or more offspring, there are exceptions to the law depending on the time and the nature of this union and other personal fertility factors that does not end in conception.

A promiscuous union would also produce children as per the law, but such “bastards” could still come under the purpose of God in due course as would other normal children; God is gracious. In fact, the Son of God identified Himself with one such unholy union in His genealogy – Tamar gave birth to Phares by Judah, her father-in-law. The reprobate nature of the parties concerned who wilfully commit this grievous act (a sexual union of a man and a woman outside marriage is prohibited by God and He condemns this act as sin even today as ever) results in such miserable children – God is not to blame.

Single mothers result more by consensus than by forced union! As you sow, so you reap. If they repent of their sin, God and the church would receive them with open hands. Single mothers by accident, abuse or rape are to be received, sheltered and supported by the community and must be rehabilitated.

However, there are barren women in the purpose of God who are called “blessed” because they would have the privilege of mothering more children in the spiritual sense. Rejoice, thou barren that bears not; break forth and cry, thou that travails not: for the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband. – Gal 4:27; Isa 54:1.