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18. unemployment it is disastrous both to the mother and the child conceived for a woman to become pregnant. "Doles" such as are granted to her do not free her mind from anxiety and misery which react unfavourably on the stamina of the child and tend to breed unemployables to swell the ranks of the unemployed twenty years hence.
19. On the part of women who as a result of very bad times at childbirth or through marital unhappiness so dread the matrimonial advances of their husbands as to suffer nervously from coitus, and still more those who even go so far as to refuse all coitus. Such cases are more frequent than is at present realized, and are the source not only of discomfort and distress to the husband and of physical detriment to the woman, but tend to social instability, divorce, the fostering of prostitution, and other evils.

In such cases as these instruction is not only required in the details of contraceptive methods but also advice on the whole art of marriage. Such knowledge as is given in "Married Love," supplemented by personal details adapted to the individual case have frequently, to my knowledge, resulted in the re-establishment of harmony in the home. Where children exist the