LECTURE LVI. 



THE EVOLUTION OF THE FAMILY. 



Prof. Edward A. Hogs. 



Tests of Family Types. The biological test. The 

 family exists for the maintenance of the species. The 

 diverse and conflicting interests of species, parents, 

 offspring. The best family must reconcile the welfare 

 of the social group with that of children and parents. 



The psychological test. The family exists for the 

 promotion of happiness. Should have regard to the 

 freedom of matrimonial choice, the often diverse and 

 changing likes and dislikes of husband and wife, the 

 desire of woman for independence and self-direction, 

 the thirst of children for freedom and individuality, 

 the helplessness of parents in old age, and the exist- 

 ence of parental and filial sentiments. 



Primitive Sex- Relations. Absence of love ; woman 

 seized by force, purchased, or taken from an enemy ; 

 no words or marks of tenderness. Absence of jeal- 

 ousy ; presenting, exchanging, selling, lending of 

 wives ; unfaithfulness an infringement of property 

 rights. No value placed on purity ; laxity of the 

 young. No horror at union of near relatives ; inter- 

 marriage of brothers and sisters ; incest no vice. Gen- 

 eral irregularity, indefiniteness, and impermanence of 

 connections. 



Early Family Institutions. Promiscuity, polyandry, 

 polygyny. Exogamy and endogamy. Kinship through 



