Collective Motherhood
By Rheta Childe Dorr
(American contemporary. Author of “What Eight Million Women Want.” From an article in “Good Housekeeping.”)
We have the ideal of collective motherhood expressing itself through the women’s clubs, through consumer’s leagues, through mothers’ congresses, through a dozen like agencies. We have the ideal for a collective fatherhood also, but this is waiting to express itself through organizations, which can be formed only by men. Of the details of children’s lives the average man knows infinitely less than do women. Of the interrelationship of children and the whole structure of society most men know nothing at all.