Robert Hedges always planned to have children.

All planning on the Hedges Farm was done with future generations in mind, even at the expense of present comfort and immediate profits.

The purpose of the continuity of history is based on a belief in the probability of future generations.

Children are the goal of a long-term relationship. No long-term relationship is possible if children are ruled out as a possibility.

Children are the result of combinations of the genes which each parent offers to the union. The female offers many important genes, several of which can be seen in her family. The female is born with all of her eggs already created and stored. The genes, which she offers a future child, are encoded in her eggs, which were forming while her ovaries were forming in her mother's womb. This is why the mother's genes are available as a contribution every other generation while males genes are available to be contributed each generation. The genes which a female offers are just as important to the thinking male as he evaluates a potential relationship, as the perception of a male "being a good provider" is an important characteristic to the female.

Women friends offer several things to males, which can be organized in two broad categories, and in two ways.

• There are the visible or apparent characteristics :
  • present appearance
  • immediate status -
  • present ability -
  • immediate popularity -

• and the invisible or non-apparent characteristics :
  • education - compatibility and drive are exhibited in this category.
  • long term plans for children - a woman who has decided to have no children will be a psychologically unwilling mother, which predisposes failure, or ill will and hard feelings, which feelings are reflected in the children.
  • investment plans -
  • future health potential and life expectancy - the slim waist and dangerous curves of the hips are recognized as the healthiest body-type and thus the best potential for motherhood.
  • genetic characteristics - certain characteristics raise the potential for long-term survival.
  • social background and status - these are compatibility factors based on mutual respect.

• There are the primitive attractions :

• The "mother" (latin) is the focus of the primitive drive for companionship
• water or food preparation abilities have primitive roots.
• shelter is a primitive need.