NE 124

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 141

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 164

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 189

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 Chi