Fewer and better babies : birth control, or, The limitation of offspring by prevenception / by William J. Robinson.

  • William J. Robinson
Date:
1926
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Credit: Fewer and better babies : birth control, or, The limitation of offspring by prevenception / by William J. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the parents with the appearance of each successive child. While the first child and perhaps the second are generally received with genuine joy, unless they come too soon after marriage, the third and fourth are met with indifference, while the fifth and succeeding ones are considered catas¬ trophes, and many a father and mother hope for a miscarriage or pray that it be still-bom or be carried off soon after birth. And many a physician will tell you of cases in which their endeavors to bring to life a still-bom child were not at all con¬ sidered by the parents, by the father par¬ ticularly, with favor. More than one physician told me that when practicing ar¬ tificial respiration on a new-born babe he was told by the father to leave the child alone, that it was not worth while bother¬ ing about. That a family of three or four can hve better, more comfortably, on a certain sum per week, say twenty-five dollars, than
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