i66 Heredity and Child Culture 



eiits themselves attended to the difficult and 

 serious work of raising their offspring. 



One of the greatest evils of divorce, that is 

 now unfortunately so prevalent, is the total dis- 

 regard of the real interest of children. The 

 breaking up of the home and handing them out 

 from one parent to the other in six-month 

 shifts has a most disastrous effect. The in- 

 herent selfishness of the men and women who 

 stand for this practice is appalling. 



What is much needed among all classes at the 

 present time is more of an appreciation of the 

 great responsibility of bringing children into 

 the world and the necessity of giving them 

 a wholesome, happy family life. It is only thus 

 that a normal, healthy generation can be reared. 



Some of our advanced communistic philoso- 

 phers have lately proposed that children be 

 separated from their parents and brought up in 

 huge caravansaries under the care of the state. 

 These pseudo-thinkers are as ignorant of bi- 

 ology as of experience. Their pronouncements 

 are better fitted for the barnyard than for 

 civilized society. All experience shows that 



