Early Marriage and Subservience

THE value of early marriages as in India in increasing the birth rate and accelerating the growth of population is very doubtful. The Indian example is said to have found certain supporters in Europe, especially in countries where all the young men and women who are in a fit condition to marry do not. An Anglo-Indian contemporary points out that early marriageis sure to lower the mental powers of the nation and produce an increased subservience to authority. "Parents prematurely mated must, almost of necessity, fall under strong family or economic influences. In India, too much the same kind of submissiveness is to be observed." Indians themselves are realising its folly.