Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

MARRIAGEand subsequent remarriage, they both become parents.Conditions, also, which could not be known or foreseenbefore marriage, may afterwards be found and preventconception. There remain four possible solutions all ofwhich have their psychic aspects.this solution(1) To accept the situation. For manymay prove the best. While most people, and certainlymost women, at some time desire children, the desire isby no means always permanent.It is realized that thereare also other things in life. It is at the same time recognizedthat at the present time the world is not perishingfor lack of children. It may also be found that the pathchosen in life has proved so exacting and absorbing thatit is not justifiable, especially for a woman, to undertakealso the duties of motherhood, which is itself, if adequatelyperformed, for some years of life equivalent to aprofession, and even an exacting and absorbing one. Perhaps,also, there are no special aptitudes for such a vocation,or there is present the consciousness of an unsatisfactoryhereditary constitution which it may not bedesirable to pass on. But the instincts of parenthood maybe in large measure sublimated; the maternal instinct maybe directed to social ends. Instead of being the physicalno benefit toparents of children who may perhaps bringthe world or to themselves, it is possible to expend theenergies thus liberated in far-reaching activities of unquestionedbenefit. Many women have attained eminence, aswell as satisfaction, in such ways and performedsocialservices of immense value.(2) To seek divorce. This may be a legitimate solutionof the difficulty for those couples who regard children asof the first importance. But, even apart from the difficultyunder most legal systems of obtaining divorce honestly onsuch grounds,it is not a solution to be welcomed. It is("2991