Children

This book is intended to afford the general reader information in the area of marriage and responsible parenthood. In our day birth control is no longer an academic subject. It is openly discussed everywhere, even in the mass media. This is because the question of family planning has become so acute. It is to the problems associated with this question that we would here address ourselves. Special attention will be given to two matters which in my judgment have not been adequately treated until now, at least on the popular level. It will be our purpose, first, to discuss the ethical questions involved in planned parenthood, and, second, to impart the factual information that is essential for regulating conception. - Preface to the first German edition.