The feeling of parenthood is, as every one knows, far stronger in woman than in man.
Part of the incentive to parenthood, in a time which knows how to prevent parenthood and which shirks it as disagreeable, is the fear of death, of personal annihilation.
The remedy for this form of social self-torture lies in the denial of parenthood to those who have transmissible defects.
Selection and parenthood are the cradle of the future.
By denying the right of parenthood to any who have transmissible disease or defect, our modern knowledge enables us to accomplish the same end without recourse to the destruction of human life.
Marriage and parenthood must hold first place, because they are fundamental to the family and to the welfare of the race.
Marriage and parenthood are twin obligations that the individual owes to the race.
The older theories had looked at infidelity either as an injury to the husband's property, or as introducing uncertainty as to the parenthood of children, and this survives in Dr.
Both these are modified and strengthened by (3) parenthood and (4) social and religious influences.
They believe that the first requisite of scientific parenthood is and must be a sane knowledge of the physiology of sex, and the psychology of sex.
Even those about to enter into the important offices of matrimony and parenthood are permitted to assume those duties and responsibilities without intelligent and scientific information or knowledge being given them.
In the period of physical, mental, and moral preparation for parenthood the leading thought of both parents should be: "DO WE WISH OUR CHILD TO BE LIKE THIS?
It is sometimes said that the control of conception, since it is frequently carried out immediately upon marriage, will tend to delay parenthood until an unduly late age.
It stands for a transfigured sentiment of parenthood which regards with solicitude not child and grandchild only, but the generations to come hereafter--fathers of the future creating and providing for the remote children.
Saleeby has well said: "No other disease can rival syphilis in its hideous influence upon parenthood and the future.
This idea of the scientific preparation for parenthood is a new one for many, but the coming generations will recognize its importance to the individual and to the race.
Consequently, the people or nation with a higher average age of parenthood may logically expect to attain greater mental powers than the peoples lacking that quality.
Parenthood on the part of the worthy must be buttressed, guided, and extolled.
Even the most orthodox objectors to birth-control as a general principle seem to regard this particular method as free from objection, providing that the married couple do not seek to entirely escape parenthood in this manner.
The period and the character of the preparation for parenthood must always vary according to the physical condition of the intending parents.
The proper relation of husband and wife to the question of parenthood can never be properly and satisfactorily adjusted so long as either of these parties occupy extreme positions upon this question.
A purposed parenthood is in danger of becoming a purpose to evade parenthood.
Parenthood is also essential to the rounding out of the moral nature.
Under the circumstances, they questioned whether indefinite postponement of parenthoodwere not proper, and, in fact, clearly indicated.
Consequently any function other than parenthood is a non-essential so far as organic existence is dependent upon it.
In order to achieve success in eugenics we must strive to encourage the parenthood of the worthy or fit, and to discourage the parenthood of the unworthy or unfit.
Parenthood and birth--in these we have the eugenic instruments of the [16] future.
Education for parenthood cannot be completed at this early age.
The ideal which will strive for education for ultimate parenthood will more completely solve the question of complete (eugenic) living.
The eugenist does not even dictate what the test for parenthood shall be.
No other [12] disease can approximate syphilis in its hideous influence upon parenthood and the future.
Did you ever attend with her a Planned Parenthood meeting or session, visit?
The best men died on the battlefield and the worst were left to aid the women in that supreme work of parenthood by which alone, and only through the co-operation of men and women, the future is made.
We complain of the birth-rate in our Colonies, or at least those few persons do who know that parenthood is the key to national destiny.
Parenthood and childhood will shortly come to be recognized as the first concern of the State that is to continue, and whilst the birth-rate continues to fall, the honour paid to fathers and mothers will continue to rise.
We must make parenthoodthe most responsible thing in life.
We must not allow our minds to be bullied out of just reasoning because the possibility of marriage without parenthood is often abused.
One may notice a teacher of zoology, say, accustomed to address medical students, offend an audience by the use of the word reproduction, where parenthood would have served his turn.
It is even more entitled to say so now, when, as everyone knows, parenthood has come so entirely under the sway of human volition.
I am trying to do a service to the principle, "Protect parenthood from alcohol," which I advocate as the first and most urgent motto for the real temperance reformer.
Parenthood among mere animals is the result of instinct, and of that alone, but not so in the human race.
In such cases, the inherent desire for parenthoodwill "cry aloud and spare not.
While, naturally, one who is a parent will speak with greater experience than another, the ability to teach this subject cannot be limited to fathers and mothers; physiological parenthood is less important than spiritual parenthood.
Great as is the importance of some information, if children are to be properly reared, still knowledge is by no means all that preparation for parenthood should include.
The minister and the sponsor contract a relationship of spiritual parenthood to the baptized person, since Baptism is a supernatural birth and the godparents are charged with the religious welfare of the godchild.
But even if happiness alone be considered, the childless home is not the most cheerful, and it often happens that parents who have sinfully limited their parenthood will lose an only child and be left sterile and desolate.
Another way in which the mystery of parenthood can be simply and comfortably taught is through the study of vegetable physiology.
Men and women are not worthy of the dignity and glory of parenthood who lack the courage to brave the frown of a child, the strength to front a child's displeasure.
Parenthood and the begetting of children are not quite interchangeable terms.
Outward assent may cover up the most violent disapproval, and parenthood should hardly be offered up in mitigation or extenuation any more than the status of orphanhood should shield the parricide or matricide.
And when the day of parenthood dawns, these may be as unwisely adoring and hopelessly indulgent touching their children as were their parents.
This was not only wretched citizenship but worse parenthood and still worse economics.
Parents must learn long before parenthood what are the values in life for which it is worth while to toil and to contend.
Parenthood The birches that dance on the top of the hill Are so slender and young that they cannot keep still, They bend and they nod at each whiff of a breeze, For you see they are still just the children of trees.
Nor can the influence of such a proposed separation of mating and parenthood upon the sex-relationship itself be ignored in any proposed new ways of living together.
One plan of meeting this unequal social burden of parenthood and the social danger involved in too few children born, France has devised by the family extra-wage.
They claim also that such a plan would remove economic restrictions on parenthood which now often work social harm.
In any case, the father's share in the self-sacrifice and burden of parenthood should have some clear recognition in any law dealing with such state aid.
Only parenthood is equal or superior to marriage in its possibilities of moral discipline and personal development.
Throughout this many-sided discipline of marriage and parenthood there has been growing an ideal of fatherhood so noble and so tender that it has easily become the central thought in many religions.
The fact is that whatever may be said on the side of ancient religious sanction and inherited sentiment, the tendency on all sides is irresistibly toward the personal choice in parenthood as in marriage.
We have left undone much we should have done to make it easier for young people to find their true mates, to start right in married life, and to bear the burdens of parenthood without stumbling on the way.
There are not wanting those who believe that rationalism in parenthood is wrong and should be prevented, if possible, but those are the people who decry the use of reason in all other matters, except it may be in the strictly economic field.
The counsel of Selective Parenthood is dangerous doctrine, indeed.
Selective Parenthood makes, moreover, for the elimination of those valuable object-lessons of inherited defect and disease, whereby Nature points her inestimable morals of healthy and disciplined living.
Yet what a blot it is, in truth, upon both parentage and parenthood that, in our day of enlightenment, such should have become necessary.
VII An essential obligation of Parenthood is, that, in order to fulfil this duly, the parents require to undergo a wholly new and intrinsic adjustment of faculty.
The question of the right age for parenthood is naturally of importance.
Until this question is scientifically settled it is obvious that the men best fitted for marriage and parenthood are those who act in such a way that they cannot harm their children no matter which view is correct.
The best age for parenthood is to be determined, not in terms of years, but of physical and psychological health and happiness.
No psychologist of discernment, in insisting on eugenic standards rather than a marriage certificate as the best criterion for parenthood would encourage any tendency to promiscuous mating.
The answer to the question of their relation to the family and to a saner parenthood is of vital importance to society.
This idea of marriage made chastity the all-important thing in woman and thus created the home and gave to children a pure parenthood and made childhood mean more to children than the world had given before.
And parenthood will never be esteemed while its true nature and sanctity are ignored and contemned; there is no dignity where the idea of God is excluded.
It is at least likely to cause postponement of parenthood until they feel financially able to take a separate house.
Public and private institutions are beginning to recognize, what has long been ignored, that parenthood is one of the functions of men and women, toward which their education should be directed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parenthood" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
