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Show TWO IDEALS OF THE FAMILY. For Comparison, One May Be Called Despotic and the Other Democratic. Dem-ocratic. To-day two Ideals of tjie family are struggling for mastery the old despotic des-potic family, of Roman origin and ecclesiastical ec-clesiastical sanction, based on the authority au-thority of the husband and the merging merg-ing of the wife's legal personality in his, and the democratic family, of Germanic Ger-manic origin, based on the consenting and harmonious wills of two equals. The one goes naturally with pioneering, pioneer-ing, agriculture and warfare, which put men to the fore; the other goes with Industry, peace and city, life, which add to the consequence of wom-pn. wom-pn. In propoion as women escape from abject mental dependence on men and find a point'of view of their own, they spurn patriarchal claims and expect marriage to be the union of equal wills. What with more girls than boys in the high schools, and half as many women as men in college, col-lege, it is not surprising that women more and more enter marriage with a . connubial ideal of their own. Nevertheless, Never-theless, the men they wed many of them cherish the conviction that the husband is the rightful "head" of the family. The resulting clash of ideals Is none the less disastrous because it Is only an incident of a transition process In social evolution. Century Magazine. |
