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Blank No.24 Series II Form B 9.
24- Have you ever used any means to prevent conception? (a) if so what? Withdrawal
(b) effect on your health?

25- What, to you, would be an ideal habit?
My ideas have undergone some modification through experience. I most heartily wish there were no accidental conceptions. I believe the world would take a most gigantic stride toward high ethical conditions, if every child brought into the world were a product of pure love and conscious choice. I [cannot?] recognize as true marriage, that relation unacompanied by a strong desire for children. Platonic love from this point of view is almost as far removed from my standard as marriages, that is a form of so called legalized prostitution.
To a girl about to marry i feel like imposing this test. "Seriously is your lover the man of all men, to whose children you would like to be mother? Do you want children?" Any womanly girl will be repelled by a dislike for children in a man. I believe our future [sociology?], and ethics, and [pachry?] must find in the family its most vital [theme?]. I cannot be a strong temperance woman for I do not know intemperance as a reality; and the same is true of [a basis?] of the