To the present writer it seems clear that the monogamic family holds its title clear to social preservation on both these points.

The family preceded individualistic marriage as we know it and was developed for the purpose of giving to oncoming generations a share in the race-life, whatever the ideals concerning that race-life may have been at any period of social order.

Even in its present undeveloped form, with its cramping limitations of past autocracy and with its crude attempts at an as yet half-understood democracy, we may well count the private monogamic family as a priceless inheritance and work toward its better organization and larger service to social life.

No other institution yet developed has shown in history or now shows in present life a worthy substitute for its functioning in child-care and child-development.

Many also believe that no form of sex-association secures such possibilities of moral discipline and personal satisfaction as does the guarded relationship of monogamic marriage.
=The Inherited Family Order Demands New Social Adjustments.=--There are, therefore, no reasons for welcoming the decline of the private family.