. If you sire or bear a child, loving that child’s mind, body and soul should become your Job #1. You can and should maintain a nurturing environment for the child born to you. We can control their world to a great extent. But we can’t control their genetic inheritance.

. We say that children are “ours,” as if they were property. Untrue. God leases them to us to nurture. Our purpose is to provide for that child-not for your second chance to mold the child into an instrument for your wish fulfillment, or an instrument of competition. Above all, we use prepare them to face the world.