To a Protestant such as myself, the perpetual virginity of Mary is one of the loopier of the doctrines fabricated by Rome. As my best friend in college (now a Methodist pastor, of all things) put it, "If Mary was ever virgin, it's Joseph we should be worshiping."
As I prepare to preach Luke 2:41-52 this Sunday, it seems plausible that Mary and Joseph might have lost track of Jesus for a few hours, but for an entire day? That seems unlikely if they had only one child. If, on the other hand, they had four, six, seven or more children, any parent of two or more children can understand how the boy Jesus was able to wander off on his own, unaccounted for: Mary had to have more children than one on her hands.
Given the size of the average faithful Roman Catholic family, many of them will no doubt realize the integrity of this argument and shortly embrace Protestantism.
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