Bad Heredity Children are largely the results of uncontrolled desire. They were conceived in lust. Their prenatal rights were not respected, owing to ignorance and a resultant lack of control on the part of their parents. There can be no doubt that lascivious tendencies can be transmitted. Early Environ- ment Among the poor, large families are ofter crowded into one or two rooms.
Decent privacy is impossible.
Bad habits of thought and sexual associations are often formed in mere childhood. Even in the homes of the richer classes the environment of childhood is often no better. The obscene language and perverted sexual practices of servants, both men and women, in the presence of children and taught personally to them can not be put in print. Many parents are criminally negligent. They neither teach their children truths pertaining to sex nor do they quarantine against misinformation, obscenity and stories of sexual perverts.