She tilts her head thoughtfully. How to explain this to someone whose values so clearly differ from those of either Humans or Betazoids? Love is what springs first and foremost in her mind, but she doesn't know that he'll accept that simple answer.

"They are the hope for the future, for the survival of the species. The chance to do better, to teach the next generation not to make the same mistakes their parents did. It's hardly the most... efficient way, I'll admit, but evolution does not always pay attention to efficiency. Species that reproduce this way cannot help it any more than species whose children are born already grown and self sufficient can."