Hence, there can be nothing more absurdly out of drawing with a rationalized civilization than any law which forbids the serious discussion of this most vital of social questions or one that forbids the full dissemination of scientific knowledge needed by those who would do the right thing in the parental as in all other relations of life.
=What Is the Just Financial Basis of the Household ?=--The sixth question that has right of debate before the marriage ceremony is that of the financial support of the household and of the distribution of the joint income.

The use of the words joint income prejudges the case on this point.

The old idea was of one purse, of right that of the "head of the family," and whatever it held was his to disburse.

He it was who determined how the wife should be fed and clothed and sheltered.

If he were generous and kind she fared well; if the opposite she fared ill.