They do not wish to give birth to them, and then not love them; and when they love, they do not wish to feel fear for the child's health and life.

That is why they do not wish to nurse them.

'If I nurse it,' they say, 'I shall become too fond of it.' One would think that they preferred india-rubber children, which could neither be sick nor die, and could always be repaired.

What an entanglement in the brains of these poor women! Why such abominations to avoid pregnancy, and to avoid the love of the little ones?
"Love, the most joyous condition of the soul, is represented as a danger.

And why?
Because, when a man does not live as a man, he is worse than a beast.