Excerpt from The Health of the Child: A Manual for Mothers and Nurses
I suppose there is no great undertaking in life that is more commonly approached without training or forethought than the upbringing of children. I am speaking of their physical care, and surely it it a great undertaking. The future of a nation lies with its children, and the future of its children is bound up with their health.
It has been the custom to assume that any woman can tend the rearing of a child, an assumption which implies either that the proper care of children requires no special knowledge at all, or that this knowledge is somehow present in women as a matter of instinct.
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