It is said that only one child in three hundred had a perfect "score card" in an investigation of a large number of children, and hence only a small proportion of parents could be supposed to measure up to all the requirements of the parent's outline of duties.
This new device of putting parents to the test is being adopted in many differing ways by health boards, by school boards, by children's courts, by church committees of investigation, and by the superintendents of charitable agencies.

This all means that a standard of child-life is being attained, a measure of the normal, divergence from which is an indication of the abnormal, either in capacity or condition.

This is a wholesome movement, although sometimes carried out in unwise and unsympathetic ways.

This should enable parents to find out if they have average children and what to do with defects that are remediable.

This is also one of the ways by which we measure the social need to help parents who are themselves handicapped in any way to do their duty by their children.
What we need, however, is more than this--we need some definite knowledge of what sort of children we have in one generation with which to build the next generation.