The new child which will soon be given to you by God is,
indeed, a divine blessing, of which you should feel proud, and of the manifold
responsibilities and obligations which it necessarily entails you should become
fully aware. It is now that you can truly say that you have a family life. Without
a child there can be no family, and through him the bonds of love and of
service can be truly and strongly maintained between the wife and husband. - Shoghi Effendi (From a letter dated 4 November 1933 written on behalf of Shoghi Effendi; compilation on “The Naming of Babies”, prepared by the Research Department of
the Universal House of Justice)
