Word: parenthood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thom's injunctions were accompanied by literature on the responsibilities of parenthood (including cheerfulness at mealtimes), upon the fostering of juvenile initiative (anti-apronstring), upon the manly ("battle of life") assets to be implanted by judicious denial of childish desires...
...university course in training for parenthood...
According to Mrs. A. H. Reeve, of Philadelphia, President of the Congress, these agencies should give courses to help the vast majority who "stumble along the beaten track of parenthood by the uncertain light of their own experience." Said...
...values; art appreciation and a discriminating taste in literature; the history of music and musicians; psychology in graded lessons; poetry-the very best, but what people really do like, not what they should like from the standpoint of a technician or a modernist ... a university course in training for parenthood, which shall include the mental, moral and physical education of children from earliest infancy through the high school age, to be supplemented by graded reading courses and required theses...
...patients were almost equally divided between Protestants, Catholics and Hebrews. Police interference has been threatened, but the legality of the clinic is not likely to be seriously challenged. The various birth control propaganda groups, however, are seeking much more .than the mere establishment of a few clinics. The Voluntary Parenthood League (Mrs. Mary Ware Dennett, Director) is making a concerted effort for the repeal of the sections of the Federal obscenity laws referring to contraceptive measures. In the short session of the last Congress a bill to accomplish this was introduced by Senator Cummins and Representative Kissel. Although many Congressmen...