Marriage and parenthood
1934-11 1934 1930s 22 pages Parenthood 15 better sex education, for urgent social reforms, and for higher ideals in the general conception of marriage. Their use, moreover, does not mean that married love is to degenerate into licence, or that there is any less need for the exercise of self-contro...
| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
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| Language: | English English |
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London : Friends' Book Centre
November 1934
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/584C53CD-9BC7-4191-B33D-7A033DE1D3CA http://hdl.handle.net/10796/EBF7F1AE-B0B5-412E-BCA5-E33BD9E95B67 |
| Summary: | 1934-11
1934
1930s
22 pages
Parenthood 15 better sex education, for urgent social reforms, and for higher ideals in the general conception of marriage. Their use, moreover, does not mean that married love is to degenerate into licence, or that there is any less need for the exercise of self-control and mutual forbearance and thoughtfulness. Sex intercourse is only beautiful and creative when it is the spontaneous expression on the part of both partners of a spiritual unity, which craves for the bodily union to complete it. This, and this alone, is the perfect union of body, mind and soul. There are many times when sex intercourse, if indulged in, would fall short of this ideal, and then each must be strong enough to deny himself for the sake of the other. There are times when either husband or wife is tired; there are the later months of pregnancy and the weeks of recuperation after childbirth — in the lives of every couple who have set a high ideal before themselves there are many occasions for the exercise of self-control and unselfishness, and their love will be the richer and deeper because of them. It remains as true to-day as it has ever been, that children are the crown of a free and complete union of a man and a woman who love each other. Thus does love become creative, and in so doing it escapes from itself and becomes, through unselfishness, wider and stronger. Children mean hard work, and self-discipline, and sacrifice, but the joys they bring are out of all proportion to the sacrifice involved.
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