And this recognition of the social value of mothers is emphasized by many who hold firmly to the monogamic family.

It is not clear that any sweeping changes away from the private family should be made to meet a condition that may be changed by less drastic means.
=Local Discrepancies in Numbers of Men and of Women.=--Fit men and women are not always together in the same place.

To have more men in a given locality than can possibly have wives or more women than can possibly marry under the monogamic system is to derange its workings.
Is it conceivable that we shall always be so stupid and clumsy in economic adjustment that such conditions shall continue, now that we are able to be more easily mobile and flexible every decade?
The mere mechanical maladjustment caused by serious discrepancies in numbers of the two sexes; in cities and in older countries more women, in manufacture and pioneer agriculture more men; certainly creates serious conditions.

Social engineering is needed for remedy.

We may not, as so long ago was done in Virginia, transport hundreds of "attractive damsels" from crowded towns, where women most do congregate, to a new country, to be eagerly accepted wives on landing from the ships.