A state legislator in Washington has introduced a bill to have the state health department produce materials to encourage people in Washington state to have no more than two children. She doesn’t really expect the bill to go anywhere; she just wants to get people discussing. The thing that worried me the most about the article in the newspaper about this bill was that the reporter seemed to think that the ultimate goal of encouraging people to have small families was a good one. What is so terrible about large families? Are we using somebody else’s share of the resources? Are we intruding on someone’s space?