The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-10-06
The Mothers
Responsibility
And the
Fathers ; ;sS AZ S Ss's'- and

BELIEVE there great the family, and
sequenty the state indicated by certain tendencies of
opinion and life. Chief among these consider the tendency
- to magnify the responsibility Of WOMEN and IGNORE
responsibility of The birth Of child implies
parents From my point of entirely impossible exag.
gerate necessity for purity devotion and responsibility which
should be required Of mothers.
MY PLEA is THAT SOCIETY DEMAND
PURITY, DEVOTION AND SENSE OF RESPONSIBLE
ITY FATHERS.
believe that dangers of degeneration i'm
mediate danger extinction There doubt that Of these
dangers proceeds from the seshne the love of and the per
vanity women these moved escape
what they consider the BURDENS of maternity
These conditions seriously deprecated
severely repmandd by any but this evasion by married
maternity wife, of
the existing to family life
MEN ARE NOT LESS SELFISH less loving less
DESTROYS seeking material comfort and physical luxury the
pense of the sacrifice Of children than
the sole party the post
pOnemen Of marriage Of society which does permit
e propose marriage.
Men postpone marriage simple
dvdua homes that they be spared the responsibility of keeping
individual furnace running and that they may escape other small
duties which fail the lot of the independent householder
and they do this because they love ease comfort and luxury
than the chase pleasures of family life, ACCOMPANIED BY ITS
RESPONSIBILITIES
personally know of young all respectable
e Industrious we'll paid clerk senographer and
reporter through all classes Of teachers through all of the
daughters Of men, from well do opuen whose hearts yearn for
opportunity live Independent family Ie for chance
help found home and produce children.
Of these the working portion would gladly give up the ndepend
of personal wage and salary and do instead of the work which
occupies them, the homework IN THEIR OWN HOMES
young equal purity personal life and equally fine domestic
and moral feelings should give them chance help build pure
home and produce pures untainted children.
The young Of the referred to- daughters of
homes Of comfort and luxury would leave their present round Of
afternoon and evening receptions and from their present lux
environment under their parents roofs with Joy for the chance
carry their ideals and their purposes founding
simple home with young of their class equally willing
give up his bachelor Injuries for the dgned estate of hu
bandhood and paternity.
What depcate talking about the production and nurture Of
children AS IF WOMEN HAD SOLE RESPONSIBILITY
corning them realize that the of the the mother has
only the stronger prenatal influence child but the
greater influence during Its first years
consider blot upon civilization that the educational systems
of country which, like boasts of its intelligence and culture
takes of the functions of wehoOd and motherhood in the
education of its girls.
Notwithstanding this defect the education of girls generally
speaking they MUCH BETTER PREPARED IN BODY
AND MIND for their duties and mothers than young
are for their duties husbands and fathers