By Margaret Sanger
During the 1920's, Margaret Sanger got millions of letters, lots of them written in desperation via ladies begging for info on tips to hinder undesirable pregnancies. Five hundred of those letters have been compiled into this book, Motherhood in Bondage.
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00 per day, some days nothing. 00 per day? Please tell me what to do to prevent having any more children. W h a t can I do with those poor miserable children? 27 M O T H E R H O O D IN BONDAGE I have not the means to do for them, neither the physical strength to do for them. I have got a goiter growing on my neck. T h e doctor says it came from the strain from childbirth, but yet they won't stop me from having children, as they would rather see me suffer and die. E v e r y time I have a child it gets larger.
27 M O T H E R H O O D IN BONDAGE I have not the means to do for them, neither the physical strength to do for them. I have got a goiter growing on my neck. T h e doctor says it came from the strain from childbirth, but yet they won't stop me from having children, as they would rather see me suffer and die. E v e r y time I have a child it gets larger. Four I have already six children and one miscarriage and my oldest is only nine years old and my baby is one year and eight months. N o w I am in constant fear that I will get that way again for if I do, it is going to be terrible for I have to have an operation, for having my children so close together had put me in such a condition that I can hardly do my own work, and an operation is almost impossible.
Especially women like me, that have slaved con52 T H E T R A P OF M A T E R N I T Y tinually from morning to night, having hardly any pleasure at all. W h i l e in my younger years my parents died leaving my brothers and I alone in this wide world, with poverty right in our midst, working hard daily. W h e n I became eighteen years of age I married and found happiness, about a year afterwards I gave birth to my first child, a difference of two years my second child, and we were so happy until finally I became so discouraged that I wanted to die.