Indledning
How is artificial love different from the love one human can have for another? And if a robot truly could love a human, what responsibility would that human have towards the robot? That's some of the poins which the short story is all about.

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Uddrag
Because of the overpopulation people like Monica and Henry can’t have their own children, instead they have David, who really just is a robot who is programmed to love Monica, just like a “normal” child would love its own mom. Monica has a hard time trying to love him back. (page 1, line 19) “She had tried to love him.”

The story leads up to a lot of hard questions fx “can you really love a robot, like your own son?” “can you have real feelings for a machine?” And what is it like to live in an overpopulated world?