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.

III. THE FATHER 69

Historic Background of Fatherhood. Purchase and Capture of
Wives. The Patriarchal Family. The Three Chief Sources of
Influence. 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 Responsibilities 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 90

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
Honored 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 116

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.

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