PARENTAL ADAPTATION. 1 1 1 



in every community. Thus, a man with large 

 bones, spare muscles, strong, angular features, 

 indomitable will and courage, marries a woman 

 who has a delicate, light physique, a sensititve, 

 flexible individuality, and a timid, conformative 

 nature. They are married, but not mated. They 

 may be happy, but it is not the happiness that 

 arises from a true marriage ; the wife becomes the 

 typical "child-wife;" their. lives do not blend. If u^** 1 

 they become one, the husband is the one; the in- 

 dividuality of the wife is completely lost in the 

 husband whose individuality remains unchanged. 

 The wife becomes the idol of his heart, to be 

 petted, cherished and indulged like a much loved 

 child, or scolded and driven like a chattel slave, 

 according to the disposition of her husband. In 

 either case it can hardly be called a union, and 

 where the latter condition obtains it is sure to 

 prove destructive to the mental growth and happi- 

 ness of the wife, and should children be born their 

 inheritance will be unfavorable. I have observed 

 that children born from such unions show conclu- 

 sively that the natures of their parents have not 

 blended in their own. The boys are usually frail, Q l jy ren O f 

 nervous, extremely sensitive, often precocious, Unmated 

 but not well balanced ; the girls are more apt to Parcnts - 

 be awkward, uncouth and wanting in mentality. 

 Both sexes frequently show a lack of individual- 

 ity, self-reliance and independence of character. 



When persons having extreme temperamental 

 or mental characteristics marry those like them- 

 selves, the results are fully as unfavorable as when 

 they marry their extreme opposites. For instance, 

 when the husband and wife are both of a Nerv- 



