Margaret Sanger's Happiness In Marriage

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Happiness in Marriage

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Margaret Sanger's book, “Happiness in Marriage”, was largely touted as a marriage manual for the birth control movement in the United States. Sanger (1969) presents intimate and yet practical advice in the attainment of the ideal relationship. While marriage may have been synonymous with maternity, the suffering, pain, and wrecked lives of children and women caused by the system are clear signs that it has not been successful. Motherhood, which Sanger (1969) views as a profession, must also undergo the apprenticeship phase.

Sanger was optimistic that in the event that unplanned pregnancies in the United States could be prevented, this would enable the wife and husband to realize