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...