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INTRODUCTION 5

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 This Book.

I. THE FAMILY 19

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 Entitled 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 Motherhood. 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 Extreme 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 Institutions 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 Democracy. The Family the Nursery of
Personality. Life, Not Theory About Life, Teaches Us. The
Moral Elite in the Modern Family. Questions.

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Antiquity of the Mother-instinct. Recognized Essentials in
Child-care. The Protective Function. Social Elements in Modern
Protection 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