In his Bible, men and women do not need children to complete their lives together, and marriage is not primarily ordered toward children. After He had formed the woman, God authoritatively declared that His creation was very good. We believe that statement to be significant. If children were necessary to complete man and woman, God would have created them before making such a declaration. Therefore, the marriage relationship lacks nothing.
Woman alone completes man, and man alone completes woman.
Thus, the husband and wife form the nucleus of the family unit. Children do not complete the family,they expand it. Compare Ezzo's attitude with that of the Pope and the whole of Catholic thought, and the immediate difficulty of reconciling Ezzo with a Catholic view of family life becomes painfully clear. Like a good Calvinist, Ezzo thinks of children as morally depraved and in need of stern discipline right from the very start of life, long before they have reached the age of reason and become capable of willfully engaging in immoral behavior. A child is not born morally good but with a natural predisposition for moral waywardness.