We planned on our son - dear daughter was a bit of a surprise!!

The reason we chose to have children was b/c we genuinely believed then, and do now, that as good, solid parents, we could improve the world around us. Maybe not on some grand scale, but by bringing up a human being who had values and morals, and was able to empathize with others, and treat others humanely, we would in fact change our world.

We don't subscribe to the particular belief that one MUST have children in order to feel complete, or have a "family." I believe that the family is complete upon marriage, when one and one make one. . .but I think children ADD to this completion.