The Importance of Children

"The whole future of the race depends upon its attitude toward children. And a race which specializes in women for 'menial purposes' or which believes that the contest of the sexes in the spheres of business, action and politics is a worthier endeavor than the creation of tomorrow's generation, is a race which is dying. We have, in the woman who is an ambitious rival of the man in his own activities, a woman who is neglecting the most important mission she may have. A society which looks down upon this mission and in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men and the creation of the future generation, is a society which on its way out. The historian can peg the point where a society begins its sharpest decline at the instant when women begin to take part, on an equal footing with men, in political and business affairs, since this means that the men are decadent and the women are no longer women. This is not a sermon on the role or position of women. It is the statement of a bald and basic fact. When children become unimportant to a society, that society has forfeited its future." - L. Ron Hubbard, Science of Survival, c 1951, 2007 edition, pg. 136-137.
"Training women extensively in political economy, symbology or the care and cleaning of rifles is not conducive to a forthcoming sane generation." - p. 296