Boys In Training For Husbands

Boys in Training for Husbands

It is doubtful if the majority of mothers realize the importance of training boys from the cradle for their duties as husbands. Even those who themselves have suffered from the neglect of their mother-in-law properly to bring up the men they have married seldom make any direct attempt to render easier and happier the lot of the women who shall in time become united to their own sons. Boys are bred to be as selfishly intent upon their own comfort, as thoughtless of the will and the pleasure of the other sex, and as unconsciously sure of the innate masculine right to accept as a matter of course any sacrifice from a feminine source, as if the whole world had not for centuries been taught by facts that half the miseries and misadventures of domestic life are due to the prevalence of these very errors. If anything could excuse the thoughtlessness of so many men in their treatment of their wives, it would be the fact that they are trained to this habit of mind by the ill-directed affection and mistaken indulgence of their mothers.