Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1911-02-15
TWO RIGHTS
OF CHILD
Should Be Well Born and
Should Be Well Cared
For in Youth
THE IDEALS OF PARENTHOOO
Those Who Dissipate, or Are
Profligate, Should Have No
Offspring.

Providence, R. l., Feb. 15-The An
nual Survey of the general conyen
ton of the Religious Education AS
sociation today was given by Prof. c. /
w. Votaw, of the University OF Chi
cago, on the Progress of Moral and
Religious Education in the American .
Home" He said:
Twice within each century the hui /
man race is renewed. Every year /
thirty-two million people die, and !
thirty-nine million are born to replace
them. This is the way Of progress; /
the future lies with the children. The /
destinies OF the race pass rapidly /
/ from one group of people to another |
"The child is the major opportunity. !
The characteristics he inherits, the
qualities which his surroundings de-
yelop in him, and the life purpose
which he works out of these, deter
mine what his contribution to race
| history will be. 1t is small thing
for an individual to live with refer
ence only to himself; it is a large
thing for him to live in such a way
that future generations will be bet
ter and happier.
Every child has two fundamental
rights. These make for his indiYid-
lual success and also for racial pro-
gress. He has the right to be we'll
born. No persons are justified in haY-
ling children if this involves transmit
ting disease, or any mental defects
that tend toward insanity, or any NOR
al peryersities which make for crime,
profigacy, and other forms OF un-
social living. He has also the right
to be we'll cared for and we'll edu'
Gated. No persons are justified in
: having children unless there is ready
comfortable home, nourishing food,
healthful clothing and good surround
iings. with a reasonable prospect OF
the continuance of these conditions
n until the children are grown, and with
= the ability to provide for them an ed
J. iucation that will make them efficient
y happy and uplifting citizens.
1t at is the duty of men and women
p TO adopt this ideal of parenthood, II
is the duty of society to promote only
this kind of race renewal, and 1t Is
1.-THE duty of the state to enforce this
:. standard of marriage. We cannot
get far in the moral and religious ed
8 ucation Of the race until the children
whom we are to educate have a fail
start and a reasonable maintenance
With good material to work upon, anc
th favorable conditions, education car
o, deyelon the capacities of the boy ant
SIX girl equip them for economic lnde
of nendence, train them for social hvin&
of and bring to pass a higher type o
manhood and womanhood
THE American home has the larg
est Opportunity in the world toda!
+. We are not yet overCrowded with poI
or ulation we have unparalleled wealtl
'e and resources, our forefathers nav
u made a splendid beginning for us, W
.1I .u9 are free from many of the hamper
ing traditions, customs and instltl
~ tions of Europe and Asia. What US
,on are we making of these great adVal
10 ttages? Is the American home an e.
ample to the world?
The home has the first, the loni
Ia est and the best chance o intuenc
on. the rising generation, to shape s.
the cjal conditions, to direct and promoi
on human progress. The educatio
which parents give to their childre
may be, and ought to be, decisive II
Up. their character and achievement. TT
18th school and the church will do the
ed. mart in the training and equipmel
nj Young America, but the fathers al
mothers are no less responsible to
their very best all the time for Il
moral and religious education
their children.
IT "The chief means of parents
If their own example. Children follc
! A~ in the main what they habitually S
and hear They contract from tho
-: nearest them their manners and en-
p tions. their moral principles of du
honesty, truth, justice and lndust
their social interests, purposes a
services. their religious reverence,
piration and faith. The father W
nE wishes his son to be straight, Gle;
luL strong and cheerful, the mother W
wishes her daughter to be fine, wi
,ots happy and useful, must themsel'
exhibit these qualities. Imitation
the first principle of education.
"At the same time, progress is 7
sible. The new generation need
, of be mere repetition of the old. I'm
favorable conditions the children n
achieve some advance over their I
ents. If they are better born, bet
sing cared for, better situated, and bet
heir educated they may become bet
New men and women This is what ev
ion, good parent hopes for and workes
ban There are many helpful organ
and tions to assist fathers and moth
and with their home education.
lred National Congress of Mothers
own the Women's Clubs are of primary
Chi portance. Many localities have
pies, theirs Clubs, Parents Clups. nc
sal and School, Associations. These
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