When it comes to having a child, for a woman, that weight is her whole self. That is what she “gives up,” in a sense, placing herself at the service of a new life. What can answer the weight of your whole self? Rightly only someone you love as much as your own self: God, your spouse, and your children. This is the simple reason that it is easier for policymakers to discourage fertility than to encourage it. The real resources to have a child never can come from the state.
