To Conceive A Child, Or Adopt One?

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The other day I overheard a couple of people in a cafe talking about the troubles one of them was having conceiving a child. It wasn't my business, so I didn't say anything, but overhearding that made me think of something. -- "Somewhere in the world a million little children (and older ones too) are crying out for a home, while a child not yet conceived is not even aware of her existance!" -- I must confess that I have never had children, and frankly bringing up children is not something of interest to me. However, I do want to ask the following question. -- Why is it so important to conveice a child "of one's own" when there are living, breaking children already born, who are suffering? -- I have a dear friend who grew up in an orphanage in the 1950's. Things were different in America than they are tody, but even today it's not perfect. This man went through abuse you could not imagine. Granted those old orphanages had more souls in them because in the old days there was still such thing as the "illegitimate" child. Tody single mothers, and unwed couples are not pressured to give up kids the way they once were. Frankly, a lot of those kids would've been better off with their single mothers, than in that horrible place. -- All that being said, what's the grand appeal of making new children when so many already need homes?