Most of the things are directly needed,--playgrounds, school gardens, child-labor laws, juvenile courts, kindergartens, pure food laws, and other visible tokens of child concern.

Many of the other things are indirectly needed by children,--ten-hour working days, seats for shop girls, protection from dangerous machinery, living wages, opportunities for safe and wholesome pleasures, peace and arbitration, social purity, legal equality with men, all objects which tend to conserve the future mothers of children.
These are the things women want.
In my introductory chapter I cited three extremely grave and significant facts which confront modern civilization.

The first was the fact of women's growing economic freedom, their emancipation from domestic slavery.

I believe that women would not wish to be economically free if their instinct gave them any warning that freedom for them meant danger to their children.

But no observer of social conditions can have failed to observe the oceans of misery endured by women and children because of their economic dependence on the fortunes of husbands and fathers.
Whatever may be the solution of poverty, whatever be the future status of the family, it seems certain to me that some way will be devised whereby motherhood will cease to be a privately supported profession.