"Birth rate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... are tied for life to criminals, drunkards, physically unsound and dangerous mates, and worthless and unamiable people generally, nor the immorality of the couples condemned to celibacy by separation orders which do not annul their marriages, but the fall in the birth rate. Public opinion will not help us out of this difficulty: on the contrary, it will, if it be allowed, punish anybody who mentions it. When Zola tried to repopulate France by writing a novel in praise of parentage, the ...
— Getting Married • George Bernard Shaw
... and Kansas have from 25 to 35 per cent. Maryland, Indiana, Missouri and Texas have from 15 to 25 per cent. These proportions are increasing rather than decreasing, owing to the extraordinarily high birth rate of the ...
— Woman and the New Race • Margaret Sanger
... illiteracy, pauperism, criminality, and the economic value of immigrants lies another one of great proportions. What has been the effect upon our native stock? What has been the expense, to our native stock, of this increase of population and wealth through immigration? The decreasing birth rate of our native population some contend is due to the industrial competition caused by the foreign element. If this be true, the foreigners have supplanted not supplemented the American, and the question arises, how ...
— History of the United States, Volume 6 (of 6) • E. Benjamin Andrews
... over-due marriages took place, there were a number of premature births, and the membership of the football clubs was disastrously reduced. Such excitement was generated that little work was done, and the illegitimate birth rate of west Glamorganshire—always high—for the opening months ...
— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston
... rear only the hardiest specimens of each species, and with almost supernatural foresight they regulate the birth rate to merely offset the loss ...
— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs |
