ABSTRACT
The liberation of woman in every one of its aspects profoundly involves the destiny of the family. It signifies in all the larger activities of life the relative individualization of one-half of human kind. This means, of course, a weakening of the solidarity of the family group, so far as its cohesion is dependent on the remnants of medieval marital authority. As far back as 1886, when the Woman’s Movement in America was well under way, the United States led every country in the world in the number of its divorces proportionate to population, with the one exception of Japan. Co-commandership in a family, and unbridled self-assertion in a woman are the quickest ways to break up a home. There is a deal of truth in the saying that a woman who wins an argument with her husband is likely to lose her man.
