Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes
CHAPTER XIV  THE MOTHER AND THE CHILD      “The child at its mother’s knee is not too young to hear from     her lips the sacred facts concerning his own origin; in a few     years, indeed, he will be too old, for he will have learnt     those facts from a worse source, perhaps in the gutter; and     instead of being beautiful to him, as they might and could be,     they will be merely dirty.