What Every Mother Should Know.
Sanger, Margaret H. What Every Mother Should Know. Or How Six Little Children Were Taught the Truth. New York: Max N. Maisel, 1916.
Slim 8vo.; yellow wrappers; fine.
Third revised edition; originally published in 1911. Intended as an informative, if decorous, reproduction manual for mothers and children, What Every Mother Should Know explicates its “gentle” intentions in the preface:
The following articles were put into story form for the mother so as to enable her to make the truth and facts as interesting to a child’s imagination as possible. The idea is that the child be taught the process of reproduction and absorb such knowledge without realizing he has received any “sex” instructions.
Sanger also published What Every Girl Should Know, which addressed puberty, masturbation, “sexual impulses in animals—in Men and its significance in love,” and “some of the consequences of Ignorance and Silence—Continence in Young Men, Gonorrhea and Syphilis.”
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