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child to society, so that it may be brought up surrounded by the harmony necessary for its fulfillment, for a child who grows up in surroundings where it is not really and truly wanted cannot blossom and be fulfilled. Bringing up a child should be mutually fulfilling for both parent and offspring. If a child becomes a nuisance, however slight, it realizes this and fulfillment i is affected. A child should therefore be kept near 1 1 FA you only if its presence is felt to be fulfilling. Otherwise the child should be put in establishments that society must create to encourage fulfillment and be placed there without the least regret. On the contrary, parents should feel a profound sense of joy because they are entrusting their child to others more capable than themselves of helping each little individual to blossom. n 1 oma wed 1 oa Regular visits can even take place if the children, whose wishes are of primary importance, would like them. The people in charge of the children’s education should always describe the parents as exceptional people, who placed more importance on their children’s fulfillment than on their own selfish pleasure of bringing them up themselves. They did this, the children should be told, by entrusting them to people more competent than themselves. Choose your partner freely if you desire one. Marriage, whether religious or civil, is useless. You cannot sign a contract to unite living individuals, who are bound to change because they are alive. Reject marriage, which is only the public proclamation of ownership of a person. A man or woman cannot be the property of anyone else. Any contract can only destroy the harmony existing between two individuals. When we feel loved, we feel free to love, but when we have signed a contract, we feel like prisoners who are forced to love each other, and sooner or later we begin to hate each other. So you will live with the person of your choice only for as long as you feel happy with him or her. When you no longer get on well together, do not remain together, because your union will become hell. All living beings evolve, and 190 INTELLIGENT DESIGN: MESSAGE FROM THE DESIGNERS