This article buy India's Shobha Shukla, highlights the need to begin with and attain the right focus in rearing children and to ponder their "necessities" of life .

"No child asks to be born. It is a conscious decision of both the parents to become instruments of bringing God’s greatest gift to this world. But, very often, the motive behind this serious decision is either just to keep their family tree blooming, and/or else to create crutches for themselves in their time of need/old age. Is this the right attitude with which to embark upon the crucial phase of parenthood?"

Whither the Sanity of Parents?