"To paraphrase G. K. Chesterton, if you plan an adventure, you are not on an adventure. If you engineer joy, it is not joy. The best things in life come to us as gifts. If you plan a child, that child is but an egotistical extension of yourself, your vanities, and your caprices. The family is good for us, Chesterton says, precisely because it does not conform to our wishes--because every child born to us comes to disrupt our routine. God gives us children to break open that hard shell of self."
~Excerpt from "What is a Child Worth?" by Anthony Esolen (Columbia Magazine, January 2010)
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