Yearbook Volume 8 - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...the minds of children and the passions and impulses of adults; and the result is we are permitting them to marry and procreate, and the thing that has been going on through all the centuries will continue to go on, the courts will continue to deal with them and the social agencies will continue to supervise the defective children of these defective parents unless we speedily devise some means to cure the causes of such conditions. What are we going to do about it? No one has presented what appears to be a feasible scheme. The task would be a gigantic one if we were to take out these criminal ones from the body politic and segregate them. There is a love of liberty in this country which wouldn't permit the taking of a child from his parents because some public officer said he was feeble-minded, but we can have legislation which will make that father and mother exercise closer supervision over their own children, and as that child grew in his feeble-mindedness, because it is a progressive disease, the parents would come to see that they needed supervision and might call upon the state to take a hand in the proceedings. We need laws. It is pioneering perhaps to say that marriage isn't a matter of absolute right between man and woman. It must be regarded for the purposes of this discussion as a privilege, as a license, extended to them by the state. They go to the marriage window today and the clerk takes $1.50 and says, " How old are you and where do you live and what is your name?' These questions being answered, they are handed a license. If the man was syphilitic, if the woman was tubercular, then everybody would say they ought not to be married. If the woman had any communicable disease, or the man as well, everybody would agree that they ought not to...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1236299108
- ISBN 13 9781236299109
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages52
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