1. To many people, husband and wife alone do not seem a proper family—they need children to enrich the circle, to validate its family character, to gather the redemptive influence of offspring. 对许多人来说,丈夫和妻子似乎不足以构成一个真正意义上的家庭——他们需要孩子来丰富他们的小圈子,验证这个小圈子的家庭性质,并从子孙后代那里获得某种弥补的影响。