Our Children Children are the offspring born to a husband and wife in marriage relationship. To the Hebrews, children were considered gifts from God, and to be childless was considered a reproach; “And after those days his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying, Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men” (Luke 1:25). Jesus clearly expressed his love and respect for the children; “And he took a child, and set him in the midst of them: and when he had taken him in his arms, he said unto them, Whosoever sha