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This clipping was found in a scrapbook with no newspaper identified. The intreview was apparently conducted by the Newspaper Enterprise Association, a U.S.-based ditorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service established in 1902. This clipping may be from a San Francisco paper.
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Minute Interviews With Noted Women.
Why of voluntary motherhood is explained by Dr. Sanger.
Healthier mothers, better-cared-for children, and happier marriages are benefits that would accrue from a universal knowledge of birth control, according to Dr. Margaret Sanger.
“The idea of birth control coming to the poverty-stricken mother is the most important
factor in her overworked life. When her babies come too close together in the years of
her young motherhood, she is not able to get her full strength."
“She cannot give them the proper care and attention her heart longs to give."
“If she has three years at least between the births of children, life will be different
for her and her babies. She should be well and strong and normal psychologically--fully
recovered from the strain of bearing one child before she has another."
“Finances also should be considered before the family is increased. There should be money
enough in the bank to carry them all through any emergency that might occur."
“Increasing the family should be a voluntary thing because the children that arrive that
way are wanted children for whom preparation has been made and for whom the family
budget and family health provide.”