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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 87
comfort, were caused by the woman working
outside the home. An impartial investigation
of the causes of the increasing brutality of the
young would show certainly that the rapid
increase in crime in several countries among
the young is caused partly by their prema-
turely taking up productive work, and partly
by early lack of home life, the result of the
mother working outside the home.
If the world is agreed that children must
still continue to be born and that a home fur-
nishes generally the best means for training
them during the first years of their life, the
present consequences of woman’s work done
outside the home must cause pessimism; such
work must be stopped. After we have thought
over the matter, it is plain that nothing is now
more needed than such plans of social order,
such programmes of education, as will give
the mother back to her children and to her
home. ^^
Everything that philanthropy now does to
heal the injurious and disintegrating effects
of the capitalistic industrial system is on
the whole wasted power. Children’s creches,
kindergartens, providing meals for children,
hospitals, vacation homes, cannot with all
their noble efforts replace a hundredth part of
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