They were never in reality all alike, as they were commonly thought to be.

The usual designation of a subject class lumps all together as if all were the same.

It is the mark of emergence from the mass to the class, and from the class to the individual, that more and more defines differences between persons.

Women have now, for the first time in the civilization called Christian, arrived at a point in which differences between members of their sex can claim social recognition.

They are, therefore, now called upon as never before to balance by conscious effort the personal desire and the social claim.
The family, more than any other inherited institution, feels the oscillations between the individual demand for personal achievement and the response to the social need for large service within group relationships which now, for the first time, stir in the consciousness of average women.
=The Family as We Know It Is the Central Nursery of Character.=--The inevitable outcome of the new freedom, education and economic opportunity of women gives us the problem of the modern family.