Mrs. Margaret Sanger Slee, " international advocate of planned parenthood,"
suggests, apparently in all seriousness, that women of the hungry countries of Europe, including Britain, should have no babies for the next ten years. This is certainly an idea, though its author, I should have thought, ought to be described rather as an advocate of planned non-parenthood. Suppose the women in ques- tion started taking the good advice now—and there is no time like the present. This is 1947. Some babies might still come dropping in till about next March, but then the supply would peter out com- pletely. By March, 1958, therefore, there would be no children in this country, or any other " hungry " European country, under ten. In March, 1968, the ten to twenty generation would be non-existent. In March, 1978, the twenty-thirties, about as valuable an age-group as any, would just not be there. It may be a good idea, though from some obliquity of vision I seem able only to see the flaws. Hownier, it doesn't really matter very much. Nature will frustrate a million Mrs. Slees.
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