" I’m determined never to be a parent. Modern manners and the break-up of the fine old traditions have simply ruined the business. I shall devote my life and fortune to the endowment of research on the best method of producin’ human beings decorously and unobtrusively from eggs. All parental responsibility to devolve upon the incubator. "

― Dorothy L. Sayers , The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (Lord Peter Wimsey, #4)