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Question: Can we have a good marriage without having children?

In fact, marriage does not only consist of love. There are other important elements of marriage. One of them refers to the responsibilities of two persons in a marriage. Without a child, one only has responsibilities with his or her spouse. Having a child means having disruption. Some people may support that children are the Precious Gift of Marriage. However, actually, a child easily makes Marriage become Hell. When having children, the couples will be more tired than their counterparts, who don’t have any child. There are not few of evidences for such a problem. Let me illustrate with a common situation: imagine that after a day of 8 or more than 8 hours of hard-working , instead of going out for a drink or shopping, the couples who have infants have to remain at home to feed their infants up, to change their infants’ nappies or to do other terrible works like that. If we were those couples, what would we feel? I believe that most of us would feel exhausted and stressed just after two days or even one day as the parents of infants. Furthermore, having a child also means having commitment with society to educate him well. Parents have to encourage, even force their children to go to school. They can’t be bad examples for their children to imitate, for instances: they shouldn’t smoke, shouldn’t have bad behaviours. These things make the couples feel uncomfortable, and cause an unnecessary tension in their marriages . As a result, although the couples have no children, their marriages will still be cozy and even happier because there are fewer responsibilities- fewer stresses, fewer tensions- for them.