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Baby For Each Bachelor.
BABY FOR EACH BACHELOR.
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Unmarried Ladies Also Urged to Become
Parents by Adoption.
St. Louis, March 22.--"Every unmarried man or woman who earns $20 a week or more should adopt a baby. If he or she earns $40 a week, two babies should be adopted," said Dr. Lindsey Wynekoop, of Chicago, in speaking at the National Congress of Mothers, in session here today.
"Taking care of a child is not a burden," continued Dr. Wynekoop, as she explained to the delegates that although she had three of her own, she had adopted a girl. "It does more to build up the character of a man than anything else. It makes him responsible for a human being, and it probably will save a life.
"The death rate of babies placed in institutions is higher than of the babies placed in private homes. One out of two babies placed in institutions dies, and we must stop this waste."
Resolutions indorsing parent compensation legislation, a Federal children's bureau and equal guardianship for parents were accepted by the national committee on resolutions of the congress, and will be read for adoption by the congress at a business session tomorrow morning.
Another resolution indorsed the educational value of motion pictures and recommended their use in the public schools.
That ragtime music is undermining the musical ear of the present generation of children was the charge brought by Mrs. Frances E. Clark in her address on "Training the Ear in Music Before the School Age" before a meeting of mothers.
Source:
Unknown, "Baby For Each Bachelor," The Washington Post, Washington, D.C., Saturday, 23 March, 1912, p. 6.
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