Word: parenthood
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...proposed deterrent should be known by all to be certain to follow immediately on any disregard of a warning given, and it should be sufficiently drastic to strike the imagination of even the dullwitted. If it became known that all this would be the inevitable result of parenthood under these conditions, a fall would take place in the birth rate of all this section of the less fit, with great beneficial results, both immediate and racial...
...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...