Plan your family.
On the morning of the 40th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling, I felt a chill, and it wasn't the bitter cold. After Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral, some 500 or so New Yorkers walked through the streets of Midtown Manhattan, in front of God, man and Grand Central Station, praying for life, love and mercy. Our prayers were not in judgment of others but that humanity may do better: that women and men may see better options than abortion and that God may forgive us for letting anyone think that she is alone and has no other...
When I told my liberal neighbor that the baby was going to be two. Her reply, "I'd never have twins." I wonder what she would have done, since at the time we didn't find out that there were two until a few weeks before they were born.
All strong good parents know that it isn't about them, a concept that is foreign in the current narcissistic culture.