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(1909) [MARC] Author: Ellen Key Translator: Marie Franzos
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10 The Century of the Child
We see on the one side a minority of con-
scientious mothers and fathers, who in a real
sense hve only for the children. They mould
their whole life for the life of the children ; and
the children get the idea that they are the cen-
tral point of existence. On the other side, we
see children who take part in all the life and
over-refinements of the home. They demand
like adults the amusements and elegancies of
life ; they even give balls and suppers at home
or in hotels for their school companions. In
these social functions, the vanity and stupidity
of adults are conscientiously imitated.
Then we require from these boys and girls,
when they reach a time of life in which the
passions awake, a self-control, a capacity of
self-denial, a stoicism towards temptations to
which they have never been trained, and which
they have never seen their parents exercise.
Most homes of the upper classes have not the
means to keep up the life that is lived in them.
By the money of creditors, or by an exorbitant
profit made at the cost of working people, or
by careless consumption of the very necessary
savings to be laid by for hard times, or against
the death of the family provider, a luxurious
style of living is maintained. But even when
in rare cases there is real ability to hve in this

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