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Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress (LCM)
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Eugenics Publishing Company
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What Every Mother Should Know
New York Call
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<h4>What Every Mother Should Know, CHAPTER VIII</h4>
<h4>Conclusion.</h4>
<p>One of the most important things which a mother must keep in mind is to give only such information, and in the manner suitable to the child's age. Children differ so greatly, that it is impossible to lay down any rules as to what and how much should be told at any age.</p>
<p>Some children are very curious, and very receptive always, while others have little curiosity and even when told sex truths, pay little attention to the telling, or seem little impressed by it.</p>
<p>It is for each mother to do as she finds advisable. Children will often ask a question very seriously and before one can formulate an answer, another question has been asked on an entirely different subject. But the fact that he has asked the question shows that the mind has awakened to this curiosity, and he will no doubt ask it again.</p>
<p><span class="italics">Mothers, be prepared!</span> Do not force anything; it will all comein time if you keep close to the child in confidence. Just be prepared. When children are very young get them accustomed to the naked body. Let them run about naked at night, perhaps while undressing for bed. Let them bathe together or with you. If this is done very early at an early age you will soon find that a boy's thoughts are clean regarding the naked body. You can tell him the names of the different parts, for he will most likely ask, and his curiosity will often entirely cease. This is the type of boy who looks back upon life and feels he has "always known" the clean and beautiful of life.</p>
<p>This is the opportunity to tell how to care for the body. The teeth and nose should be cleansed morning and night. When there is any itching of the rectum or sexual organs this is often caused by uncleanliness and washing of these parts at once will often relieve the irritation.</p>
<p>Teach that no part of the body should be touched unnecessarily by any one, and when there is any discomfort of any kind to come to the mother, who will attend to it. See that no clothing on the child is tight or causes irritation, for this often leads a child to touch and handle himself and forms the habit of masturbation.</p>
<p>This is often acquired innocently, even at the creeping age, and the child becomes a victim and slave to the habit.</p>
<p>Keep a close watch over children for this habit, without making them conscious of it, especially if the child prefers to be alone or remains long in bed in the morning. These<br />are by no means positive symptoms of the habit, only when these signs are present keep your eyes open.</p>
<p>If you do find this habit is formed, keep him up at night until he is sleepy, or at least do not send him off to bed alone when he is not sleepy, to lie and toss about with this<br />temptation. Let someone read to him or tell him interesting stories which will divert his mind so he can fall asleep.</p>
<p>The same in the morning; do not allow children to remain in bed after they have awakened;do not have the bed too soft or the coverings too heavy; the room should be cool and he should lie on his side rather than on the back. Keep his mind busy with interest. Get him to call you whenever he feels the temptation, or to come where others are. If he soon be the victor. Always it is the same--confidence, confidence, is such a necessary part of the child'slife.</p>
<p>When a child is under four years of age is the ideal time to gain this confidence, forthen there is nothing personal in anything you say; all interests are general. There is no shyness or consciousness of sex. If this has been done, when he takes up the study ofthe birds more could be told him of the sexual parts; that as some day he was to be a father he was made differently than mother or sister because he had a different part to do in life's work. That he must keep well and grow strong in order to do this work.There need be no mystery about the sexual truths; impress upon in the sacredness of the process. There is no greater crime against a child than for a parent to allow a child to flounder about with half truths, gathered from polluted and corrupt associates.</p>
<p>Be deliberate in giving the child the truth, as much of it has he can take at a time, or as little, <span class="italics">but have it the truth</span>.</p>
<p>Mothers will be confronted with questions concerning the vilest words of the street. Tell him frankly their meaning in your own clean way, and the correct word to use in itsplace. You will find when his curiosity has been satisfied he will no longer be curiousor have any special desire to use these words.</p>
<p>Every child first turns to his mother in confidence for all these questions. Never turnhim off with a slight or embarrassed answer; just rely upon your knowledge, your natural knowledge, and answer him. Every mother can do it. Do not make a Sunday School lesson of these teachings, only to be taught once a week on very solemn occasions. Children hate being talked at; just be natural, simple, interesting, informal, and as often as theopportunity arrives.</p>
<p>This confidence and early understanding will bind you together far beyond that mostdifficult period, puberty, and enable you to strengthen the child's ideals of manhoodand womanhood.</p>
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Margaret Sanger
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1914
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<p>Margaret Sanger compiled her <span class="journal"><span class="italics"><em>New York Cal</em>l</span></span> series, "<span class="article">How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth</span>," (see to and published them in 1914 in a booklet <span class="book"><span class="italics"></span>What Every Mother Should Know</span>, (Rablelais Press). She also added this new conclusion. The first edition may have been published in 1911 by the Eugenics Publishing Company, but it has not been found.</p>
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Margaret Sanger Papers, Library of Congress
<em><span class="book"><span class="italics">What Every Mother Should Know</span></span></em> (New York: RabelaisPress, 1914), pp. 59-61. <span class="mf">Margaret Sanger Papers Microfilm, Library of Congress,</span> LCM 131:274
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motherhood
parenthood
men and boys--sex and sexuality
masturbation
Sanger, Margaret--books--What Every Mother Should Know
sex education
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<em>What Every Mother Should Know</em>, Chapter VIII. Conclusion.
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Published article
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New York Call
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New York, NY
Mecca, Saudia Arabia
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<div>
<h4>Impressions of the East Side</h4>
<h4 class="sub-heading">PART II--</h4>
<p class="byline">BY MARGARET H. SANGER.</p>
<p>The East Side is full of superstition. Superstitious
fear prompts them in many of their acts. If they can give a penny to a blind man, they
feel sure it will bring them "luck;" they fear to mix meat and milk, not so much because
of religious scruples as because it brings them bad "luck." One of the desires of their
life is to move up town, to cleaner quarters, but even when they are able to, the fear
that "luck" will leave them, keeps them down town. A physician of some repute, living
down town, when asked why he lives down there when his practice is mostly up town, said,
"<span class="UNK">'Luck' came to him there and he will stay with it.</span>" Almost
everything depends on "luck," to them it seems almost a part of their religion, and is
difficult to overcome. </p>
<p>Their great desire is to get "rich" and employ men and women. The capitalistic instinct
to be your own "boss" and make off the labor of others is everywhere. It is ridiculous
to think for a moment that the class struggle is on the East Side only and every one who
understands the meaning of the words, knows only too well that it is everywhere. But
certainly it is at its height on the East Side, for there it is the aim and ambition of
everybody to bleed everybody else. The doctors, druggists and lawyers all take a share
in this. The druggists charge from 10 to 15 cents more on every article than is paid
elsewhere.</p>
<p>An example of the doctor's bleeding is shown by the story which follows: During the very
hot weather a rash broke out on an infant whose parents had had a little "luck" in
accumulating this world's goods. The ever kind neighbors and friends of the parents
advised them to go to a baby specialist, just for a change of "luck," they said, as the
baby had not been well since birth. These were easily persuaded, and the first visit
cost them $5. The specialist then sent the mother to another physician to have her milk
tested, which cost five more. Then both parents had to have their blood tested, which
cost five each, and go back again to the first specialist to tell him there was nothing
the matter with either the milk or the blood, which cost five more, or $25 in all. And
the first day it grew a little cooler the baby's rash disappeared!</p>
<p>It is surprising to see the large number of push carts, and one wonders how they can
exist there, when it is impossible for some people to buy only the bare necessities of
life. But the fact is that over half of the people there do not patronize the push
carts, and the other half who do are compelled to buy the same articles over and over
again, so cheap are the wares. A pair of stockings cost 15 cents, but after one day's
moderate wear they are unfit for darning, so badly and of such wretched material are
they made.</p>
<p>The fruit peddlers too astonish you at the thriving business they seem to do. But when
you have eaten with these people for a few days the same erratic appetite takes hold of
you, and meat, fish and bread no longer satisfy you, and if there is a cent to be had
you find yourself on your way to the fruit carts too, eagerly longing to quench the
terrible hunger which has taken possession of you. The people are always eating, for
they are always hungry. </p>
<p>The parents' love of the little ones is almost animal like in its emotions, especially to
those under four, after that--well--it's just like waiting for the years to pass till
they can bring in some return for their earthly existence.</p>
<p>The shouting, screaming and swearing at the children and even at the infants, is
impossible to conceive of, having had no childhood themselves it is difficult for them
to realize the evolution or state of the child mind, and a child of four or five is
expected to think and act like the parents, which accounts for the many slaps the little
tots get all around. They are proud to call their children Americans, and when they are
able, or brave enough to try their "luck," in a new section, they emerge to the upper
East Side. There they rapidly develop, and improve in manners, language and habits. In a
few years they have outgrown that neighborhood and the West Side becomes their Mecca.</p>
<p>The word Socialism is almost a household word among them. They have neither the fear, nor
have they the disgust which our friends up town have of the word. Yet the deep, and
abject pity with which they regard you when they discover that you are a Socialist is a
hundred times more maddening and much more difficult to meet. If you had escaped from an
asylum with a placard of "harmless" on you they could not treat you with more
tenderness. They will even listen to you while you expound your Socialism to them, but
when you have finished they will smilingly shake their heads, and tell you that it is a
beautiful dream, but as long as the world lasts, "Brains" will be the only thing that
can count. On their explaining just what "Brains" mean, you find that the principle the
druggist used when he charged them 10 cents more than the article could be purchased for
elsewhere is the brilliant example. </p>
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Margaret Sanger
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1911-09-10
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<p>For Part I see "Impressions of the East Side, Sept. 3,
1911.</p>
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msp#320122
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<span class="newspaper"><span class="italics">New York Call</span></span>, Sept. 10, 1911, p. 15
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capitalism
parenthood
poverty
physicians
socialism and socialists
working classes--living conditions
working classes--MS on
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Impressions of the East Side, Part II
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Published Article