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parents seems unfavourable for the offspring
as well as extreme age. The first child of a
too youthful mother is often weak, and
besides ordinarily the joys of motherhood are
not desired, because she feels that physically
and psychically a child is too great a burden to
her, who herself is only a child. The conditions
of a strong, well-nourished offspring
require the postponement of the marriage
age for women. In northern countries it
should be established, if not by law at least
by custom, at about twenty years. This is all
the more necessary because then the young
woman can have behind her some years of
careless youthful joy, an undisturbed
self-development, and will also have reached the
physical development necessary for motherhood.
While twenty years should be regarded as the
earliest period of marriage it should actually
be often postponed some years still for the
well-being of the woman, the man, and the
children, and married life as a whole, in which
most conflicts arise because women have decided
about their fate before their personality
was definitely formed, before their heart was
able to find its choice. The love of the man
chooses and the young girl often confuses the
happiness of being loved with the happiness of
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