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, included in a letter dated 5 June 1974 written on behalf of the Universal House of Justice to an individual believer; Compilation on “The Naming of Babies”, prepared by the Research Department of the Universal House of Justice)
