Even financially, children in our society are felt as a burden rather than the asset they were in all previous societies. How unnatural that young married couples typically have to choose between a house or children … Mothers have to work and rent a mother-substitute for day care. This is progress?
But even when our bad economic systems makes kids financial “burdens.” they are still personal pleasures. For while money diminishes when shared, love multiplies. Spirit and matter follow opposite laws. Altruism divides your income but multiplies your outgo; it divides your money but multiplies your love and your happiness if you’re sane enough to pin that happiness to your love rather than to your money.
Peter Kreeft
