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There is, for all except the rich, a premium on childlessness, which the natural desire for parenthood cannot wholly discount. But this ought not to be so. Childbearing and rearing is a very necessary and arduous vocation, in which all the best women should be enlisted. In a socialistic regime the State would as a matter of course pay for this work as well as for all other productive work.
The countess was a woman of about forty-five, with a thin Oriental type of face, evidently worn out with childbearing she had had twelve. A languor of motion and speech, resulting from weakness, gave her a distinguished air which inspired respect.
They are, we are informed, to "receive adequate care during pregnancy, at confinement, and for one month afterward." Thus are mothers and babies to be saved. "Childbearing is to be made safe."
In the case of the housewife, poverty on the physical side means never-ending work; no escape from drudgery and monotony; insufficient convalescence from the injuries of childbearing; a poor home, badly constructed, badly managed, without conveniences and necessities.
Scarcely any phase of woman's part in marriage is arousing more attention at present than the question of childbearing. Women, and especially educated women, are accused of sterility or of intentionally avoiding motherhood. They are said to believe that children interfere with their careers, that they can render greater service to the world in public work than in childbearing.
Now it could not have been the woman who desires economic independence through self-support who was responsible for the ultimate aversion to childbearing in the Roman world for SHE did not exist. It could not have been the woman who desires full citizenship for she did not exist.
In general, in any country where we find a diminished prolificity a falling off of childbirth unaccompanied by a decrease in the number of marriages occurring at the reproductive ages, we may attribute this decrease to voluntary restriction of childbearing on the part of the married, or in other words, to the prevalence of "birth control."
In no case does the average number of children per wife go higher than 3.89. In one case it goes as low as 2.98. Perhaps the modern wife's habit of going on living and thereby protracting her period of childbearing will in time cause her fertility record to compare not unfavorably with that of the colonial wife, who made an early start but a quick finish.
In 1903, fifteen years later, among those 370 women there were 212 who were still single. This record does not satisfy Mr. G. Stanley Hall, who figured it out. The remaining facts, however, might be considered more cheering: The 158 Smith women who had married had borne 315 children. This was two for each of them. And most of them were still in their childbearing period.
Matters went badly with Patricia in the ensuing months. Her mother's blood told here, as Colonel Musgrave saw with disquietude. He knew the women of his race had by ordinary been unfit for childbearing; indeed, the daughters of this famous house had long, in a grim routine, perished, just as Patricia's mother had done, in their first maternal essay.
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