They are the women who have independent incomes from inheritance or from vocational success and yet excuse themselves from any responsibility toward even invalid husbands, and never see the parental bond as now binding both fathers and mothers alike.
Many men are struggling in some confusion of mind as to the outcome of this new tendency to equalize rights and opportunities, and to the credit of most of them, be it spoken, they want to do the right thing.
It is now for women to preserve the father, the best of him, and for men to still call for the mother, the noblest of her, in the new adjustments that wait for full realization of the new democracy in the family.
Here, again, we need not wait for perfect consistency in law, or full understanding of social tendencies and their outcome, to find our way in life.

Love shows the way--love between intellectual and moral equals, who, in trying to adjust their own lives to a higher law in which "self-reverencing each and reverencing each," settle all problems on the higher levels of thought and feeling.
=New Social Advantages for Fathers.=--Meanwhile, again, the father-office stands out in actual living function as never before.
The fathers that now show what fatherhood was meant to be--they are legion.

Holding the wife and mother in her place of sacred honor, they are to their children the Supreme Court of appeal in grave questions of discipline, the highest functionary of the family in the distribution of honors and rewards, the best comrade in fun, the most delightful companion in games, the strongest challenger in effort, and the symbol of knowledge and power of the community life.
With the new partnership of men and women in the family the father has a chance to be a companion and friend as never before.

He has an opportunity to show his children that side which the ancient father often failed to develop, the side of friendship and understanding.

To the boy a clear picture of what he would be, to the girl a declaration of the kind of man she would marry, the modern father of the highest type makes possible a modern mother who shall show her son what womanhood may become in freedom, and who can lead her daughter to be, like herself, the flower of all the best of the past.
QUESTIONS ON THE FATHER 1.