The Family and Its Members

CONTENTS

A Threefold Aim. Basic Principles Underlying All Socially Useful

Changes. The Sense of Kind and the Sense of Difference. Vital

Changes in All the Basic Institutions of Society. Coveted Uses of

The Experience of the Past. New Ideals Affecting the Family. The

Headship of the Father. Is It Possible to Democratize the Family?

>What Is the Modern Ideal in Child-care? Modern Ideals of Sex-
relationship. Ellen Key and Her Gospel. What is Meant by the
Demand that Illegitimacy be Abolished? The Legitimation of
Children Born Out of Wedlock. Philanthropic Tendencies Respect
Legal Marriage. Illicit Unions of Men and Women in Divergent
Social Position. Shall We Return to Polygamy? All Children En-

>titled to Best Development Possible. The Work of the Children's

>Bureau. The Suggested Uniform Laws. Have Unmarried Women

>a Social Right to Motherhood? Ellen Key's Estimate of Mother-

hood. Monogamic Marriage Does Not Work Inerrantly. New

Demand that Motherhood Have Social Support. The Increasing

Tendency of Women Toward Celibate Life. Women Cannot be

Forced Back to Compulsory Marriage. A Few Believe in a Third

Sex. Most Social Students Believe in Marriage. Dangers of Ex-

treme Specialization. Industrial Exploitation of Children and Youth.

Social Measures Needed to Prevent These Evils. The Attack upon

the Family by Reactionaries. The Prevalence of Divorce. Old In-

stitutions Need New Sanctions. The Monogamic Family Justifies

Itself by Social Usefulness. The Inherited Family Order Demands

New Social Adjustments. The Family as an Aid to Spiritual Democ-

racy. The Family the Nursery of Personality. Life, Not Theory

About Life, Teaches Us. The Moral Elite in the Modern Family.

Questions.

Antiquity of the Mother-instinct. Recognized Essentials in Child-

> care. The Protective Function. Social Elements in Modern Pro-
>tection of Children. Women's Leadership in Social Protection. The
Provision of Food, Clothing and Shelter. The Woman in Rural
Life. Modern Demand for Standardization. The Apartment House
and the Family. New Uses of Electric Power. Certain Duties the
>>Mother Cannot Delegate. The Mother's Compensation for Personal
Service. Early Drill in Personal Habits. Early Practice in Talking,
Walking, Obedience, and Imitation. Special Responsibility of the
Average Mother. Women's Relation to More Formal Education.
Women's Relation to Educational Agencies. The Social Value of
Parental Affection. What Women Need Most. Questions.

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III. THE FATHER..

Historic Background of Fatherhood. Purchase and Capture of

Wives. The Patriarchal Family. The Three Chief Sources of Influ-

ence. Ancient Military Training of Youth. Ancestor-worship.

The Double Standard of Morals. Basic Needs for Equality of

Human Rights. Special Protection of Women Needed in Ancient

Times. The Social Value of the Patriarchal Family. The Responsi-

bilities of the Ancient Father Commensurate with His Power. Moral

Qualities in Women Developed by Masculine Selection. The Highest

Ideal of Fatherhood. Incomplete Adjustment to Equality of Rights

in the Family. The Marriage Question To-day the "Husband-

problem." Women Cannot Have All the New Freedom and Also All

the Old Privileges. New Social Advantages for Fathers. Questions.

IV. THE GRANDPARENTS.......

Relative Increase of the Aged in Modern Life. Savage Treatment

of the Aged. The Relation of Ancestor-worship to Respect for

Aged Men. The Position of Chief-mother in the Ancient Family.

Memory of the Aged Valued in Primitive Life. Old Women and the

Witchcraft Delusion. Older Women in Religious Vocations Hon-

ored in Middle Ages. To-day Comparatively Few Really Old at

Seventy. Is Any House Large Enough for Two Families ? Reasons

Why Husbands Desert Their Families. The Financial Provision for

Old Age. Needed Ways of Preparing for Old Age. Pension Laws.

Old age Home Insurance. To Prevent Premature Old Age. Check

Extreme Requirements for Youth in Labor. Need of Experience in

Many Fields of Work. Prepare Vocationally for Old-age Needs.

The Attitude of Mind Toward Old Age. The Special Gifts of the

Old to the Home and the World. Questions.

V. BROTHERS, SISTERS AND NEXT OF KIN...

The Ancient Kinship Bond. Present Demands of Kinship. Special

Burden of Women in Family Obligation. Disadvantages of the Only

Child. Permanent Value of the Family Bond. Questions.

VI. FRIENDS AND THE CHOSEN ONE.

The Power of Friendship. The Newly-wed and Old Friends. Some

Advantages in Choices of Marriage by the Elders. New Demands

for Social Control of Marriage Choices. The Young Should be

Helped to Make Wise Choices. The Revolt of Youth. The Wisdom

of the Ages Must_be_the_Guide of Youth. Personal Choice in

Marriage Has Now Widest Range. The Value of the Church in Social

Life. Easy Divorce Does Not Lessen Marriage Responsibility. New

and Finer Marriage Unions. Questions.

VII. HUSBANDS AND WIVES...

Not Fancied but Genuine Happiness in Marriage Now Demanded.

Social Restraints on Marriage Choices. Shall the Wife Take the

Husband's Name? Shall the Wife Take the Husband's Nationality?

Who Shall Choose the Domicile? Shall the Married Woman Earn

Outside the Home? Economic Considerations Involved. Is It Bad

Form to Earn After Marriage? Shall Parenthood be Chosen? Some

People Have a Right to Marry and Remain Childless. What is the

Just Financial Basis of the Household? What Shall be the Accepted

Standard of Living? The Need for Full and Mutual Understanding

Before Marriage. The Supreme Satisfactions of Successful Marriage.

Questions.

VIII. THE CHILDREN OF THE FAMILY.. . . .

Conditions to be Secured for Every Child. The Need for Two

Parents. Equal Guardianship of Both Parents. Every Child Should

Have a Competent Mother. Every Child Should Have a Competent

Father. Economic Aspects of the Father's Competency. The

French Plan of Extra-wage. The Endowment of Mothers. Does
this Plan Make Too Little of Fathers? Just Limits to Number of
Children in Subsidized Families. The Right of a Child to be Officially
Counted. Every Child Should Have Social Protection. Child-labor.
Children Must be Protected in Recreation. Standards of and Aids
to Health. Health Boards Should Help All Alike. Items of Work
in Child Hygiene. The Educational Rights of Children. The Use
of Married Women as Teachers. Individual Sharing in the Social
Inheritance. Questions.

IX. THE FLOWER OF THE FAMILY..

The Proportions of Genius to the Mediocre. Eugenics. Euthenics

and Eudemics. Only Men in Lists of Geniuses. Social Need to

Learn What Children Are. "Charting Parents." New "Observation

Records" for Children. What to Do with the Specially Gifted Child.

Genius Universal in Nature. Genius Its Own School-master. Vari-

eties of the Gifted. Questions.

X. THE CHILDREN THAT NEVER GROW UP.....

The Defective Children. Custodial Care of the Defective. Heredity.

Difficulties in Care of Morons. The Colony Plan. Mental Hygiene.

Special Rooms in Public Schools. Training the Nervous System.

Responsibility of Women in Marriage. The Call for Preventive