They cost care, and demand toil and sacrifice; ofttimes causing pain and grief: yet the blessing they bring repays a thousand times the care and cost.

It is a sacred hour in a home when a baby is born and laid in the arms of a young father and mother.

It brings fragments of heaven trailing after it to the home of earth.

There are few deeper, purer joys ever experienced in this world than the joy of true parents at the birth of a child.
Much of home's happiness along the years is made by the children.

We say we train them, but they train us ofttimes more than we train them.
Our lives grow richer, our hearts are opened, our love becomes holier when the children are about us.