If a society of women, enthusiastic for the independence of their sex, formed themselves into an association to propagate and practise the (to them) ideal of children outside the tie of marriage, I should not think the state entitled to interfere with its work.
Laski defends the right of women to form associations promoting independence and alternative family structures.
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