The Break-Up Of The Family
As with the home, so with the family. It would be strange indeed if a stained shell were to hold a sound nut. All the events of the last century--the development of the factory system, the Married Women‘s Property Act, the birth of Mr. Bernard Shaw, the entry of woman into professions, the discovery of co-education and of education itself, eugenics, Christian Science, new music halls and halfpenny papers, the Russian ballet, cheap travel, woman suffrage, apartment houses--all this change and stress has lowered the status of one whom Pliny admired--the father of a family. The family itself tends to disappear, and it is many years since letters appeared in The Times over the signature, "Mother of Six." The family is smaller, and, strangely enough, it is sweeter tempered: would it be fair to conclude, as might an Irishman, that it would agree perfectly if it disappeared?
I do not think that the family will completely disappear any more than scarlet

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