Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter RussellSanger, Margaret
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Debate on birth control. Margaret Sanger and Winter Russell
Sanger, Margaret
Birth control -- Moral and ethical aspects
The third daughter married. She was a painter. She painted canvasses.
The station agent after an alarming career of drunkenness, died. He was
respectable. He was a federal official, but he died. And she will never
have children.
There is one child from that family. In the next house was the
superintendent of the state Normal College; two children, one boy, who
after a career, he married. The other is an old maid.
The next house was a physician. His first wife went insane. He had a
beastly temper. I don’t know whether it was birth control that did it.
There was one daughter. She had several marriages but no children. Then
she married again. That second wife went to the insane asylum. One child
died before it was of marriageable age.
In the next house was a man who had two children, and they never had
grandchildren. In the next house was a veteran of the Civil War who
spent most of his pension money on drink. He had two sons, one of whom
was married and his wife died in familiar circumstances. I suppose she
was not quite well informed. There was one child. The other boy from
that family—he is looked upon as uncommon and vulgar because he has four
children. Then this next house, there was a man who had several farms.
They had three children. One of them was an old maid. The second girl
married after several years. She died. There is one child from the
third. In that next house was one of my uncles. He died, too, leaving
two children, but they never lived and there is no grandchildren from
them.
Crossing on the other side of the street, another physician. They had a
son who went to college. He has become a druggist in Vermont, married 20
years and no children.
That family is extinct. In the next house was another physician. He died
at the age of 45. His wife had no children. His wife was the champion
bon-bon eater. In the next house there was a boy and a girl. She married
a drunkard. He was a dentist. No children. The brother is out West, and
I believe there are two children there. In the next house, there was a
son and daughter. The daughter married the cashier of the savings bank.
No children; 25 years married. The son did not learn birth control quick
enough. They had a child before they were married. (Laughter.) His
mother took him and sent him out on a farm and she taught him, and they
only have had one since.
Then came my father’s house. I have one sister and one brother. My
sister has three children and my brother four, and I have four.
(Applause.) There are eleven grandchildren. Within the next house, there
is a merchant living with his wife and they both tended store. They
wanted to be so decent and accumulate a lot of property. They became the
crankiest individuals and when he died, his wife said he was the
handsomest looking corpse she had ever seen. It is extinct. No children
whatever.
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