Now the ideal of "Two heads in council; Two beside the hearth; Two in the tangled business of the world" is working toward democratization of the family.

This leads toward a legal status and an economic adjustment in which the relation of husband and wife may be equalized toward each other and toward their children.

In this new process, which is a part of the general movement we call democracy, there are special difficulties of modification peculiar to the family relation.

The monogamic ideal and practice demands permanency, solidarity of interest and unity of control both within and without the family circle, at least until all the children of a marriage have reached maturity.

The ideal of the rightful individuation of women, and even of minor children, works against that legal solidarity and obvious unity.