Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1913 — Unnatural Mothers. [ARTICLE]

Unnatural Mothers.

It cannot be too strongly reiterated that maternal love does not necessarily include wisdom. It Is “natural” for every mother to love her children, but It does not follow that she knows what is beet for them. The animal mother does know by instinct; and we, content to take onr pattern of motherhood from the beasts, have imagined that we needed nothing more. . . . We assume that every mother knows how to care for her children; and. If we only see her keeping at it incessantly, we never criticize the method or results. . . . >We have urgent need of the unnatural mother —the mother who has added a trained intellect to a warm heart; and, when we have enough of them, the rarest sound on earth will be that now so pitifully common —the crying of a little child.— Gilman.