Beaver County News | 1924-12-26 | Page 7 | Women to be Heads of their Families and Marriage to be Eliminated

Women to Be Heads of Their Families and Marriage to Be Eliminated By CLARENCE DARROW, Chicago Lawyer. Society eventually will work out a system whereby women will be the heads of their families and the practice of marriage will be eliminated. It is only preachers and religions which say the family is the foundation of society. What is a family? Whether children of the same mother have the same father is not an important matter, so long as they are of the right kind of fathers. Heredity and environment make the child, and the latter is most important, to my mind. Mating is no less right because words are said by a preacher. In time children will come to be looked upon as assets, rather than liabilities. Certainly birth control should be a part of woman's knowledge, but as a solution of crime it could be used only as a temporary and local remedy. Probably the practice would eliminate some causes of crime, as it is the poor that have the large families, and it is poverty that is one of the causes of crime.