ABSTRACT
My wife and I are `professional people'. By that I mean that from the time we were kids, we always planned on going to university, getting good jobs that were ful®lling, and having careers that provided the ¯exibility to do what we wanted to do, and get paid for doing it. The American syndicated columnist/author Harvey Mackay once wrote, `Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' This was a tenet that my wife and I aspired to. Today, both of us are active and contributing members of our communities, and of the child psychology discipline. We both have relatively well-regarded positions with leadership responsibilities, and our work bears on the lives of many people. As professional people enjoying professional lives, we are living in Mackay's world. So with so much going on in our professional lives, why would we ever want to have children?
