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CHAPTER THREE

acquainted with facts for it to be necessary to point out the inferiority likely to result in the offspring of persons consistently alcoholic, and therefore the racial value of prevention in such families.

  1. In homes where permanent povety or inferior wage-earning exists and where there are already as many children as the parents can bring up decently, contraception is obviously indicated rather than the saddling of the community with children of a very doubtful racial value.

To this even Lady Barrett, M.D., and the Archbishop of Canterbury[1] assent by inference in the little book on "Conception Control," which concludes: "There are many women of the poorer classes in whom child-bearing is sometimes the last straw in circumstances all of which tend to destroy health and vitality." Although Lady Barrett advises the "safe period" as the best method for the public to use, she ignores its utter unreliability (see p. 85 of this vol.), of which she gives no warning.

  1. In homes which at other times may be comfortable, during periods of extended
  1. ↑ Florence E. Barrett (1922): "Conception Control and its Effects on the Individual and the Nation. With a foreword by His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury." Pp. 48. London: 1922.

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