Genre:

Abstract

Publications abstracted:

H S Pomeroy Andover Review

Subjects:

Eugenics, Population, Heredity, Sex, Darwinism

    Suggests that the insistence that the state should 'enforce compulsory childlessness upon all criminals, paupers, and victims of heredity disease' ignores the fact that 'the children of the well-regulated family have double the chance of surviving and ultimately becoming parents themselves possessed by the children of the morally and physically unfit (253).