" EUGENIC " CHILDREN [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—May I venture to hope that you will protest in your influential columns against the misuse of the term " eugenic " for all the promiscuous children that unbalanced people are bringing into the world ?
Two well-kmown women have both desired to have a child " without marriage ties "—and our daily Press, for some reason impossible to fathom, insists upon calling these unfortunate children " eugenic babies."
In plain English, of course," Eugenics means simply that every child should be " well-born "—physically, mentally, morally and in the widest sense of the word socially—i.e., that no child ought to be handicapped at birth in any of these direetions. Whereas these so-called " eugenic babies " are very severely handicapped socially by having an illegiti- mate father—and in their heredity by having a father lacking in any sense of parental responsibility-3 mother with a very distorted one and both parents with no social sense whatever.
Since Britain is over-populated, surely we may protest against the production of dysgenic babies—and especially against having the Science of Eugenics, and the Eugenics Society, brought into disrepute by having them misnamed in our Press.—I am, Sir, &e:, URSULA GRANT DUFF,
One of the Hon. Secs., Eugenics Society. High Elms, Farnborough, Kent.
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