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transformation might it be expected that the
deepest misery of society, prostitution, could be
restrained. Only after such a transformation
could we with full right require from our
youth that self-mastery which is the best
pre-condition of the sound development of the
new generation.
As things are at present, it is certain that
just as there are really immoral, unmarried
mothers, so there are others deeply moral,
who would be mothers with a great pure love
to the father of their child, but who for
various reasons should not be united with them in
legal marriage. And even if the contraction
of marriage were simplified, such motherhood
on the part of single women, should
continue to exist.
Bjoernsen, when he gave lectures in Norway
on sexual morality, maintained the view
that the woman who wished for motherhood,
but who was not adapted in her opinion for
marriage, should be fully entitled to the first,
without the last being regarded as necessary,
on condition that she was willing to fulfil to
the child her maternal duties. This idea
certainly has a future. In Germany there was
a well-known case in which a fully mature
woman, not a mere girl, saw shortly after
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