themselves and through the potential of having children. 71 The possibility of procreation is essential to marriage. Girgis, Anderson, and George state, The idea that we are trying to explain is not that the relationship of marriage and the comprehensive good of rearing children always go together. It is that, like a ball and socket, they fit together: that family life specially enriches marriage; that marriage is especially apt for family life, which shapes its norms. 72 In a relationship that’s