The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-02-15
Children Have Rights.

generations will be better and hap
pier.
Children Have Rights.
Every child has two fundamental
rights. These make for his individual
success and also for racial progress.
He has the right to be well-born. No
persons are justied in having children
If this involves transmitting disease,
or any mental defects that tend to-
ward insanity or any moral perversi-
ties which make for crime. profligacy
and other forms of unsocial living. He
has also the right to be well cared for
and we'll educated. No persons are
justified in having children unless
there is ready a comfortable home,
nourishing food. healthful clothing
and good surroundings, with a reason
able prospect of the continuance OF
these conditions until the children are
grown. and with the ability to provide
for them an education that will make
them efficient, happy and uplifting
citizens.
to adopt this ideal of parenthood, 1t
is the duty of society To promote only
this kind of race renewal and IL is the
duty of the state to enforce his stand
ard of marriage. We cannot get far
in the moral and religious education
of the race until the children whom
we are to educate have fair start and
a reasonable maintenance. With good
material to work upon, and favorable
conditions, education can develop the
capacities of the boy and girl. equip
them for economic independence, train
them for social living, and bring to
pass higher type of manhood and
womanhood. W
Home Has Big Opportunity.
"The American home has the largest
opportunity in the world today. We
are not yet overcrowded with popu-
lation, we have unparalleled wealth
and resources. our forefathers have
made a splendid beginning for u.s. we
are free from many of the hampering
traditions. customs and institutions of
Europe and Asia. What use are we
making of these great advantages? Is
the American home an example to the
world?
"The home has the first, the long
est. and the best chance to influence
the rising generation, to shape social
conditions, to direct and promote hu
man progress. The education which
parents give to their children may be,
and ought to be, decisive for their
character and achievement. The
school and the church will do their
part in the training and equipment of
young America, but the fathers and
mothers are no less responsible to do
their very best all the time for the
moral and religious education of their
children
"The chief means of parents is
their own example. Children follow
i'm the main what they habitually see
and hear. They contract from those
nearest them their manners and emo
tions, their moral principles of duty.
honesty, truth. Justice and industry.
their social interests. purposes and
services, their religious reverence, as
piration and faith. The father who
wishes his son to be straight, clean.
strong and cheerful. the mother who
wishes her daughter to be fine. wise.
happy and useful, must themselves ex-
hibit these qualities. Imitation is the
first principle Of education.
Better Chance Than Parents.
AT the same time progress I'm pos
sible. The new generation need not
be mere repetition of the old. I'm
der favorable conditions the children
may achieve some advance over their
parents. II they are better born. bet