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Chapter Xl. Early Marriage 66

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Discusses love marriages, how they can be made, and the duty of parents in respect to them.

CHAPTER XLI. THE MARRIAGE CLUB 71

Discusses how parents and elders may help the young to avoid unhappy marriages.

CHAPTER XLII. EDUCATION FOR MARRIAGE 75

Maintains that the art of love can be taught, and that we have the right and the duty to teach it.

CHAPTER XLIII. THE MONEY SIDE OF MARRIAGE 79

Deals with the practical side of the life partnership of matrimony.

CHAPTER XLIV. THE DEFENSE OF MONOGAMY 83

Discusses the permanence of love, and why we should endeavor to preserve it.

CHAPTER XLV. THE PROBLEM OF JEALOUSY 89

Discusses the question, to what extent one person may hold another to the pledge of love.

CHAPTER XLVI. THE PROBLEM OF DIVORCE 93

Defends divorce as a protection to monogamous love, and one of the means of preventing infidelity and prostitution.

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