When such volunteer social effort becomes a public service it is highly desirable that the trained women it demands for its staff should (some of them, at least) be married women.

Otherwise, the same loss of efficiency that the rapid turn-over of the women teaching staff of our schools occasions will be discovered in our social work as it changes its centre of gravity from the private to the public organization.
There is a far greater need from this point of view for reorganization of hours and details of work so as to give more half-time or quarter-time employment to women of proved ability, than for any wholesale condemnation of the woman who works outside her home for pay, even when her husband is able and willing to "take care of her." It is for society to say, indeed, that women marrying and having children owe first duty to the home.

It is for women themselves to say whether they shall use any time at their disposal after that duty is met in continuing such relation to their vocation as is now possible, or in being "sports." The fact that men are trying to see both sides of this vexed question and that women, as a rule, are trying to make adjustment that will hold an equitable and happy balance between the personal and the family well-being means that this problem will work itself to a democratic result without social loss.
=Shall Parenthood be Chosen ?=--The fifth question that should come up for serious discussion and some measure of agreement in advance of the wedding ceremony is that of children.

Shall there be any?
If so, how many, if we can afford them?
If so, how soon shall we try to call about us the new life?
If not, why not, and how shall we live together without hope of offspring?
These are vital questions.

For want of agreement, or at least of understanding of disagreement before marriage, many unions are shipwrecked.
In the old days there were no questions of this nature.