“To put radically asunder what nature and nature’s God joined together in parenthood when he made love procreative, and to disregard the foundation of the covenant of marriage and the covenant of parenthood in the reality that makes for a loving procreation, and to attempt to soar so high above an eminently human parenthood, is inevitably to fall far below - into a vast technological alienation of man.”
“Parenthood is the opiate of the masses.”
“…hearts wrung with anguish, the anguish of having children, a vulnerability as astonishing as the capacity for love that parenthood brings.”
“Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.”
“Helplessness in the face of a child's suffering is the curse of parenthood.”
“Uselessness, she thought, was the permanent condition of parenthood.”