Those also who are working through the formal education of the schools for the insertion of study and practice along lines of home-making are making a complementary and valuable contribution toward the inner unity and the outer success of the family.
=The Attack upon the Family by Reactionaries.=--One more and most important attack upon the family as it exists to-day must be noted in this list of elements in modern society which work against this inherited institution.

It is an attack which, however mistaken, is ostensibly, and often honestly in intent, a movement for the protection and improvement of the family order.

It is the effort to turn the history of that institution back upon itself and make the family again, as in the past, a legal unity with one representative, the husband and father, through whom alone the wife and children have distinct relationship to society-at-large.

It is an effort to return to mediaeval thought and practice and to reaffirm in legal outline the headship of the husband and father, the permanent minority of the wife and mother, and the complete subordination of the children.

It is even an effort to rescind such laws as have given married women independent contract-power and property rights, the equal guardianship of their children, the full use of educational provisions, and individual relationship to the state through the franchise.