The Healthy Marriage

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Excerpt from The Healthy Marriage: A Medical and Psychological Guide for Wives With the increase of economic pressure and the spread of education, this Class has gradually come to Claim for itself more individual rights and occupa tions, and, as fashions always filter from above downwards, so the desire to establish individual independence has spread to many less prosperous classes of women. Economic pressure has had the same effect upon the men. In the past parents considered it their duty to make provision for their sons and to save them from the arduous and anxious times which they have to suffer in their youth, if their living and still more. The expense and responsibilities of wife and home fall upon them when they are inexperienced and incapable in the world's affairs. But now the Change of the modern world from a system of tradition to a system in which each individual starts more or less de novo has entirely changed the feelings with which a youth views the life that is before him. Lord 'bacon, whose philosophy one may say was almost the first notable expression of the modern world, showed the changed position in the famous saying, He, who hath wife and Children, hath given hostages to fortune, a saying which would have had little vogue or mean ing in previous eras and in the countries of the older and more stable Civilisations. In the Orient, for example, where Europe has not yet caused the adoption or imitation of her modes and habits, all women who desire or have to pay heed to the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.