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A great many biological as well as social and moral 

 considerations point to the permanent monogamous 

 marriage as the most successful possible solution of this 

 relation, from the point of view of producing and 

 protecting and educating offspring. This test is the real 

 final test of its rightness. True permanent homes are 

 essential to proper rearing and development of children. 

 Real homes cannot be developed other than by full 

 devotion of both parents to the task and to each other. 



5. The Ideals of the Human Home. It is clear that a 

 real home means a permanent, faithful devotion of the 

 parents to the task of producing and rearing children. It 

 means that each must deserve and have the complete 

 confidence of the other. Such close relations demand 

 confidence. The welfare of the children equally demands 

 it. It is not enough that the mother should be faithful and 

 pure. It is just as bad and vicious for a man to be 

 unfaithful to this ideal of the home as it is for the mother 

 to be. Unless both are faithful, it is not possible to raise 

 children in an atmosphere of truth and social and moral 

 health. 



To get right homes it is not enough that parents merely 

 be true to their home and to one another; they must 

 educate their children in the same ideals. One day these 

 children will be making homes of their own and it is very 

 essential that pure homes continue in the next and later 

 generations. Young people who are not pure and clean 

 before marriage are not true to this ideal of a home, for 

 neither a man nor a woman who before marriage indulges 

 in sexual intercourse can be an honest and perfect unit in 

 a home. This is condemned by our history, by our laws, 

 by morals, by religion, and by science. 



6. Chivalry in Man. Men as a whole have not taken a 

 manly position in this matter of sex purity. Men have 

 said: "We insist that the woman we marry shall be pure 

 and clean; but it is not so bad for a man to be impure as 



