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The Children's Era: What is the Children's Era…and Why Aren't We In It? (Sentences 1-12) Summary

Margaret Sanger is Doing This for the Children

  • She can't even believe her own subject. What? The Children's Era?
  • Ellen Key (See our discussion in the "Key Figures" section) wrote a book called The Century of the Child, which is what the 20th century was supposed to be: a beautiful garden for children.
  • Sanger says that's been a big #fail.
  • Sanger asks, why isn't the Children's Era here? We like kids, right? Kids are cool. So why haven't we made the world better for them?