In this Round-table on the Family, Wheatley Fellow, Jenet Erickson Ph.D, tackles a unique perspective on children: instead of why do children need their parents, she looks at all of the positive ways parents are affected and transformed by their children. “This Splendid Inconvenience” 2007, “Young Astronomer” 2017, “Climbing Mother” 2014, “Choosing Everything” 2013, and “Concordia Inter Populum,” copyright Brian T. Kershisnik. Used with permission.