![]() “We do not think so,” she gently replied. Surely the care of babies is open to any woman-any mother!” ![]() “Does mother-love urge mothers-with you-to fill their own children’s teeth? Or to wish to?” “You told us about your dentists,” she said, at length, “those quaintly specialized persons who spend their lives filling little holes in other persons’ teeth-even in children’s teeth sometimes.” She studied my face, trying to work out a means of clear explanation. That is, the child-rearing has come to be with us a culture so profoundly studied, practiced with such subtlety and skill, that the more we love our children the less we are willing to trust that process to unskilled hands-even our own.” Each girl holds it close and dear, an exquisite joy, a crowning honor, the most intimate, most personal, most precious thing. “You see, almost every woman values her maternity above everything else. “Then you separate mother and child!” I cried in cold horror, something of Terry’s feeling creeping over me, that there must be something wrong among these many virtues. ![]() ![]() “The care of babies involves education, and is entrusted only to the most fit,” she repeated. ![]()
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