"Thank the Force for that. We're dramatic enough as it is without adding to our numbers." He's certainly not planning on having any children himself. Ben does not trust himself not to mess up the process of raising another human being. He can't even get his own life on track.

Case in point: he responds to that question by staring at Anakin, really looking at him, as if attempting to find the trick in it, the flaw he can point out to be told he's a good padawan. The idea is so outrageous even his very non-Jedi, non-Sith mind rejects it outright.

"I can't. If I allow my behaviors or training to become lax, I could slip back into my old ways. I owe my family and the galaxy as a whole better than that."