Fertility doctors foresee an explosion in sex - selection procedures on the horizon, as couples become accustomed to the idea that they can pay to
beget children of the gender they prefer.
No doubt the motives of those
who beget children coitally are often mixed, and they may be uncertain about the full significance of what they do.
Parents do not
simply beget children, but must also see to their formation in love and truth and knowledge of God.
For millennia every human culture has recognized the bond linking sex, marriage, and the generation of human life, and frowned
on begetting children out of wedlock.
The law said that if a man died without offspring his brother was to take the widow and
beget children so that the dead man's name might not «be blotted out in Israel».
He has not been getting caught driving drunk, having altercations with police or
begetting children all over the country.
We did not need modern scientific breakthroughs to know that it is possible» and sometimes seemingly desirable» to sever the connection between marriage and
begetting children.
Parents are not content merely with
begetting children and supplying them with the means of physical existence.
But that is to say there is a connection, long understood, between marriage and what may be called the «natural teleology of the body»» the inescapable fact that only two people, not three, only a man and a woman, can
beget a child.
They marry, as do all [others];
they beget children; but they do not destroy their offspring.
For we've already been told that the law must be settled on grounds that are «categorical»: it is not enough to say that marriages between men and women have the best chance of
begetting children.
Over a century ago in England Samuel Wilberforce was so discouraged that for a time he avoided marriage, not wanting to
beget children, «hostages to fortune,» he said, in so ill a world.
The best minds will tell you that when a man has
begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty.
The approval of a new treatment method by which three parents will be able to
beget a child is being discussed since a few years in Great Britain and will possibly become a reality in two years.
If cain killed able, who did he marry to
beget children?
Both got married (though most probably not to each other) and
begot children: the Wiz had a son, Wizkid, and Nifta had eight kittens.
On the first issue the court said that «while the inability to
beget a child might be a consequence of imprisonment, it is not an inevitable one, it not being suggested that the grant of artificial insemination facilities would involve any security issues or impose any significant administrative or financial demands on the state» — particularly since the couple would be paying privately for the facility.
The UK government first relied on the suggestion that losing the opportunity to
beget children was an inevitable and necessary consequence of imprisonment.
The court ruled that while the inability to
beget a child might be a consequence of imprisonment, it was not an inevitable one, it not being suggested that the grant of artificial insemination facilities would involve any security issues or impose any significant administrative or financial demands on the state.