The Control of Parenthood

Abstract

DURING the past seven years the National Birth-rate Commission has been sitting, and it has published two reports, one in 1916, entitled “The Declining Birth-rate: its Causes and Effects,” and the other, called “Problems of Population and Parenthood,” in 1920. Smaller volumes have already sprung up around these large reports, and they have dealt with certain aspects or phases of the great general question of the falling birth-rate and all it may involve. One of these smaller books is the work before us; it contains short essays on four aspects of the subject—the biological, the economic, the social and religious, and the Imperial and racial; there is an introduction by the Bishop of Birmingham, and the whole is edited by Dr. James Marchant, who is the secretary of the National Birth-rate Commission itself.

The Control of Parenthood.

By Prof. J. Arthur Thomson and Others. With an introduction by the Bishop of Birmingham. Edited by Dr. James Marchant. Pp. xi + 203. (London and New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1920.) 7s. 6d. net.