The Joys of Conception (5): The Joy of Service

About a year ago, I read an article interviewing young married couples in college in which each couple was asked how many children they planned to have and why. I will never forget the picture of one young couple, apparently much in love and jogging for exercise, who candidly admitted that they plan­ned never to have any children at all because children would interfere with their own needs for self-fulfillment. They calmly admitted that this was totally selfish but it was what they wanted and...