Parental DutyBy Ellen Key(Swedish contemporary. From “Love and Marriage.”)
By Ellen Key
(Swedish contemporary. From “Love and Marriage.”)
Children begotten under a sense of duty would ... be deprived of a number of essential conditions of life; among others that of finding in their parents beings full of life and radiating happiness which constitutes the chief spiritual nourishment of children—and it may be added that parents who live entirely for their children are seldom good company for them.