"[A] program should always respond to the user in the way that astonishes him least." - Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming

"When you coming home, dad?" "I don't know when, but we'll get together then. You know we'll have a good time then." - Cat's in the Cradle, song by Harry Chapin

There is perhaps no greater intimacy possible between men than when a son looks to a father from whom he has learned to be a father himself.

Giving birth is the natural complement and continuation of the marital act.

"The inexpressible sadness which emanates from great cities," says Gabriel Marcel in Homo Viator (1952), "a dismal sadness which belongs to everything that is devitalized, everything that represents a self-betrayal of life, appears to me to be bound up in the most intimate fashion with the decay of the family."

We can help kids understand why it is meaningful to save sex for true love.

Why is respect so important? 

"Friendship helps the young, too, to keep from error." - Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

Even as a woman shapes the child growing within her, the joys and trials of pregnancy are shaping her, sanctifying her, and teaching her how to depend on others during this season of peculiar service.

Humans are, hands down, the single most fascinating set of creatures on the planet.  If you want to understand how humans work, just make a few, sit back, and watch them do their thing.