The Importance Of Marriage And Procreation

Are procreation and the education of children intrinsically connected to the welfare of mankind, specifically as it relates to the teachings of the Catholic Church?
In order to make this connection, it’s imperative to understand the sacred union that is marriage, which God ordains and declares worthy of begetting children. Marriage is recognized as a sacrament, with the understanding that it is a showing of an image of the mystical nuptials between Christ and the church, while also a portrayal of a physical manifestation of a holy sign, which gives grace. In Pope John Paul II’s Familiar Consortio, it reads
According to the plan of God, marriage is the foundation of the wider community of the family, since the very institution of marriage
In an article titled Marriage and Procreation: The Intrinsic Connection, the author’s highlight and debunk any notions that the community of marriage is capable of existing outside of a union between man and woman, when the very principal that fosters this union, is that a couple should be able to form a real bodily alliance. What this article goes on to clarify is that the foundation of marriage is the reality that a couple must form the kind of communion that would be naturally fulfilled by conceiving and rearing children together, an ideology which gives precedence to the understanding of what a biological union actually entails. These notions directly correlate procreation to marriage when it is understood that children are intended in God’s divine laws to be a gift from marriage, and can only be brought into existence from the sperm of man and an egg of a woman. While this article serves to clarify the true meaning and connection between marriage and children, particularly from a biological stance, Pope Pius XI’s encyclical reminds believers of what should follow procreation, when he writes the following
An article by Edmund Waldstein acknowledges that teaching a child, allows man to take part in the divine goodness, a partial sharing by way of likeness of God’s own goodness. What is later explained in the article although not directly, is that while partaking in a divine goodness by way of educating a child man is simultaneously partaking in the common good, a good that is incapable of being diminished. Waldstein’s article goes on to describe a common good as an act that brings no lost to the individual performing the act, meaning that when a parent passes on the wisdom and spirituality of God onto there offspring they don’t cease to possess the same knowledge but in fact they are presented with an opportunity to grow and expand that