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GALBRAITH, ANNA MARY. Family and the new democracy; a study in social hygiene. *$2.25 (3c) Saunders 392
20–1764
[Publisher has withdrawn book from circulation.]
The book completes the author’s trilogy on the phases of woman’s life; the other two books being: “The four epochs of woman’s life” and “Personal hygiene and physical training for women.” In the present volume she briefly sketches the vital epochs of the history of our social institutions and points out that today the institution of the family is threatened by three fatal excrescences: prostitution, free love, and divorce. She lays bare the causes of these evils and suggests remedies which will insure the greatest amount of social happiness and the best possible progeny. Among the contents are: Rally to save the American family; Primitive man’s problems of marriage and the family; Marriage and divorce laws in primitive society and ancient civilizations; Various aspects of the modern divorce problem; Prostitution, social disease, and marriage; Alcohol and race degeneracy; Sex education as a solvent for the double standard of morals and celibacy; Problems of betrothal; The problems of marriage; The rights of the child, eugenic marriages, the limitation of offspring; Woman’s economic independence and the disintegration of the family; References; Index.
“The chapters on the need for uniform marriage and divorce laws, and for sex education to combat the spread of venereal disease, are much to the point.”
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