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Show "Here Is Where You May Help Even Under Existing Marriage Laws" By MRS. EDWARD F. WHITE, Assistant Attorney General, Indiana. The family is the first step in the founding of that society which grows from the small family through the patriarchal family, the organized or-ganized community, the city, the state, the nation. This unit is made up of two the male and the female each with the same influence upon the offspring of the marriage. Because this family becomes the unit of the government, the government has an interest in the mating of that man and woman. To preserve a virile race, to stimulate a virile nation, states have said that the insane shall not marry and propagate their kind, that the feeble-minded shall not marry, that members of the same family shall not intermarry. But when we have safeguarded all such marriages, there are still other problems before us. Your sister may be of high mentality, but too young to marry; your daughter may want to marry one who is of sufficient age but has a transmissable disease; your friend may want to marry one who is old enough and in excellent health, but who is a moral leper. Here is where you may help even under un-der existing laws. |