Better, for social purposes, that no children above a reasonable number should in any family receive a special allowance, even if older brothers and sisters did do so.

It may be that in France large families are desperately needed.

Not so in the United States.

The number of five or six should certainly be the limit for which any just scheme of family subsidy should mulct the taxpayer.
=Just Limits to Number of Children in Subsidized Families.=--The difference between the three under fourteen years which in so many cases can be cared for unassisted by the average workman, and the four and more that bring the family down to the danger-point of financial dependence, might be a subject for consideration in any scheme of family subsidy, and some clear idea of social need in family fertility should be a part of any proposition to make allowance from the public funds for each child under the earning age.

In any case, the father's share in the self-sacrifice and burden of parenthood should have some clear recognition in any law dealing with such state aid.