In removing the economic handicaps at present connected with the reproductive function in women, care must also be taken that the very measures which insure this do not themselves become dysgenic influences.
The fifth of the dysgenic influences which has been fostered by the institutional taboo is uncovered by recent studies of the effect of certain emotions on the human organism.
The third dysgenic influence which works under cover of the institutional taboo is akin to the first in its ancient standards of "good" and "bad.
In primitive groups, a "moral" control which kept all women at reproduction was neither eugenic nor dysgenic unless accompanied by systematic destruction of the least fit children.
The most potent dysgenic influence in the present phase of the sex problem is the conflict between the interests of the individual and the group regulations.
Although romantic love in its present expression may often lead to uncongenial marriages and even involve dysgenic mating, its æsthetic and refining influences are such as to make it desirable in spite of these drawbacks.
It appears, therefore, that old age pensions paid by the state would be dysgenic in a number of ways, encouraging the increase of the inferior part of the population at the expense of the superior.
In extreme cases, it would be proper for society to take adequate steps to insure that the dysgenic party could neither remarry nor have offspring outside marriage.
Dysgenic conduct should equally be taught to be an obstacle to salvation.
There is no room in the civilized world now for a dysgenic religion.
Chancellor Jordan has long been the foremost exponent of the dysgenic significance of war, and this book gives an excellent summary of the problem from his point of view.
Yet this eugenic effect is not without a dysgenic after-effect.
It is well that the man or woman interested in one of these abnormalities can get definite information on the subject; and Huntington's Chorea, in particular, is a dysgenic trait which can and should be stamped out.
But in spite of all this, ill-assorted, dysgenic marriages will still be made.
As these same races fight with pertinacity, there is a high mortality rate, so that the dysgenic result of these wars is particularly deplorable.
The effect of maternity endowments and maternity centers supported by private philanthropy would have, perhaps already have had, exactly the most dysgenic tendency.
Its dysgenic effect, by eliminating the strongest and healthiest of the population, while leaving the weaklings at home to be the fathers of the next generation, is no new discovery.
They are intensely dysgenic in their operation, for they cripple and at last eliminate just those stocks which have shown themselves to be above the average in ability.
Alcoholism, as a habit, is one of the worstdysgenic factors to reckon with.
The eugenists will therefore pay little attention to criminality in the ancestry as a dysgenic factor.
It is an undesirable trait, but cannot be considered a dysgenic factor.
But to emphasize: homosexuality is a dysgenic factor, and no homosexual should marry.
Drug Addiction or Narcotism= Addiction to drugs, whether it be opium, morphine, heroin or cocaine, is a strongly dysgenic factor.
It is a dysgenic factor but much less important than sadism.
Excessive Libido in Men= We have seen that sexual impotence is a dysgenicfactor and if complete and incurable should constitute a barrier to marriage.
But a dysgenic factor in an animal is a dysgenic factor, and that is all there is to it.
This is not alcoholism, and cannot be considered a dysgenic factor.
These are undoubtedly abnormal conditions, and, taken as a general thing, they are dysgenic factors.
Most notably is this the case in America, where the dysgenic consequences of the so-called higher education of women have been clearly demonstrated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dysgenic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
