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V
86 The Century of the Child
family. I hope, rather, that the new conception
of having every individual look after himself
will gain more ground. The father will then
be, in the real sense of the word, the educator,
when the care for the maintenance of the fam-
ily does not press him down to the ground.
A woman will then, as mother of the family,
not be in dependence on the man,—a position
she feels as humiliating, if as a girl she earned
her own living. People are bound to return to
this new form of matriarchy, when they begin
to consider care of the new generation, as the
great business the mother takes over for so-
ciety. During its progress society must
guarantee her existence. In many cases, the
answer of the married woman who works out-
side the home would be as follows: That her
happiness would consist in quietly looking af-
ter her children, and in being able to keep
house, but that she must have an income that
would make her independent of her husband.
A Swedish evening paper, the special organ
of the feminist movement, two years ago
started an investigation on the productive work
of married women. The answers, contrary to
the expectations of the paper, were nearly
unanimous in showing what dangers for child-
ren, and what interference with household
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