Women, Children, Love, and Marriage

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C. Gasquoine Hartley

Section I WOMEN

Section II CHILDREN

Section III MARRIAGE AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS

WOMEN, CHILDREN, LOVE AND MARRIAGE

WOMEN, CHILDREN,
LOVE and MARRIAGE

BY
C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY

AUTHOR OF “THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMAN,” “WOMEN’S WILD OATS,”
“MOTHER AND SON,” ETC.

London
HEATH CRANTON, LIMITED
6 Fleet Lane E.C.4
1924

Printed in Great Britain for Heath Cranton, Ltd., by Clements Bros., Chatham

And we won’t, we simply will not face the world as we’ve made it, and our own souls as we find them, and take the responsibility. We’ll never get anywhere till we stand up man to man and face everything out, and break the old forms, but never let our pride and courage of life be broken.

D. H. LAURENCE in “Aaron’s Rod.”    

CONTENTS

PAGE
          Foreword 11
Section I.—WOMEN 13
1. Women and Cats 15
2. The Women of Spain 19
3. The Dangerous Age 29
4. The Legal Position of the Mother 35
5. Problems of Birth Control 37
Section II.—CHILDREN 41
1. A Boy’s Misery 43
2. Criminals Made in Our Nurseries 49
3. The Tyranny of Parents 51
4. The Superfluous Father 55
5. The Perfect Mother 59
6. Nobody’s Children 61
7. Let Us Pension the Mothers 71
8. Boy and Girl Offenders and Adult Misunderstanding 73
9. New Ways of Teaching Children 79
10. Difficulties and Mistakes in Sex Education 87
11. Sex Instruction. The Age at which Knowledge Should be given 107
12. The Myth of the Virtuous Sex 113
13. Sentimental Tampering with Difficult Problems with some Remarks on Sex Favouritism 117
14. The Seduction of Men 123
15. Playing with Love 127
Section III.—MARRIAGE AND OTHER RELATIONSHIPS 131
1. Is Passionate Love the Surest Foundation for Marriage? 133
2. Marriage Reform 139
3. To-day’s Ideas on Marriage. Are we seeking vainly after happiness? 141
4. Why Men are Unfaithful 145
5. Why Wives are Unfaithful 149
6. Should Doctors Tell? 157
7. The Modern Wife and the Old-fashioned Husband 161
8. The Temporary Gentleman and his Young Wife 165
9. Is Marriage Too Easy? 169
10. Passionate Friendships 173
11. Conclusion—Regeneration 187
INDEX 189

FOREWORD

The essays here collected were written on various occasions over a considerable space of time. This will account for the diversity in the subjects and for a certain amount of restatement of my own beliefs and position.

I have not thought it advisable to attempt to alter this, since though some of the things I have said before may be repeated, the point of view and special application are in each case different.

Some of the essays have appeared already in various journals, but all have been very carefully revised and altered and the great majority entirely re-written.

In spite of the diversity of the subjects there is a common idea beneath all the essays—a common back-ground of faith. I do not know whether I am justified in my confidence that this idea—this faith is abundantly manifest. If I should try to formulate it into one short statement, I should say it was the responsibility that the old have to the young—the debt that one generation owes to the next.

In my gospel there is one commandment which may not be broken: Ye shall not hurt a little child.

C. GASQUOINE HARTLEY.

Merton Park,
March, 1924.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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