Supposed to be the philosophy paper that I will submit for Primary and Secondary Reflection but it didn’t fit in three pages.

When I was young, I didn’t know the purpose of having a sibling and even a family. I didn’t know that my mom was my mother. What is a mother anyway? When we were young, we tend to ask questions that are impossible for us to answer and so we ask someone who is older than us. I could barely recall when my mom gave birth to my sister and saw her bearing my younger brother after a few years. All I could see is just a baby and nothing else. I wonder what their purpose is. They’re just a baby who cries, who laughs, and crawls. What’s the real connection between a mother and her child?

Now that I am old enough, I still ask oftentimes: why is there a need to have a child. This world is made up of people and all of us started as babies. We were once innocent and pure. We have no idea what’s going on around us. Why do we have a connection to everyone and why do we belong in a particular group that we call family?

When a husband and a wife decide to build a family, the first thing that they should have is a baby. In Theology, we are told that reproduction is one of the aims of marriage because it strengthens the relationship of the couple and bearing children will make them rejoice. But it’s not just that, when we use the opportunity of procreating, we preserve all of the race’s extinction. When a woman doesn’t have a chance of bearing, she usually do all the things just to have a baby because she knows that it’s what will make his man happy. She is avoiding her husband to be with another woman who could bear a child. It’s now one way of saving their marriage as well. See, it shows how important it is to have a child.