Mothers, in the self-sacrifice involved in their motherhood, too often forget their duty to remain beautiful. All youth is revolted by ugliness, consciously or unconsciously. A girl should not be indirectly taught to dread motherhood herself by seeing the wreckage her own mother has allowed it to make of her. A high demand for beauty of form by mothers is not selfishness but a racial duty.
CHAPTER XVII
Baby’s Rights
“The nation that first finds a practical reconciliation between science and idealism is likely to take the front place among the peoples of the world.”
Dean Inge: Outspoken Essays.
Baby’s rights are fundamental. They are:
To be wanted.
To be loved before birth as well as after birth.
To be given a body untainted by any heritable disease, uncontaminated by any of the racial poisons.
To be fed on the food that nature supplies, or, if that fails, the very nearest substitute that can be discovered.