The small family system, is it injurious or immoral? : with thirteen diagrams of population movements, etc., at home and abroad / by C.V. Drysdale ; and prefatory notes by B. Dunlop and William J. Robinson.

  • Drysdale, C. V. (Charles Vickery), 1874-1961.
Date:
1917
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Credit: The small family system, is it injurious or immoral? : with thirteen diagrams of population movements, etc., at home and abroad / by C.V. Drysdale ; and prefatory notes by B. Dunlop and William J. Robinson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    л , ■ ■ f л.- - pv С' •^v NeO-Malthusianism îs an ethical doctrine based on the principle of Malthus that poverty, disease and premature death can only be eliminated by control of reproduction, and on a recognition of the evils inseparable from prolonged abstention from marriage. It therefore advocates early marriage, combined with a selective limitation of offspring to those children to whom the parents can give a satisfactory heredity and environment so that they may become desirable members of the community. It further maintains that a universal knowledge of hygienic contraceptive devices among adult men and women would in all probability automatically lead to such a selection through an enlightened self-interest, and thus to the elimina¬ tion of destitution and all the more serious social evils, and to the elevation of the race. — C. V. Drysdale.