Editing Jane Addams (section)

===Eugenics===
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Addams supported eugenics and was vice president of the American Social Hygiene Association, which advocated eugenics in an effort to improve the social 'hygiene' of American society.<ref>Kennedy, A. C. (2008). Eugenics, “Degenerate Girls,” and Social Workers During the Progressive Era. Affilia, 23(1), 22–37. {{doi|10.1177/0886109907310473}}</ref><ref>Haller, M. H. (1963). Eugenics: Hereditarian attitudes in American thought. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press</ref> She was a close friend of noted eugenicists [[David Starr Jordan]] and [[Charlotte Perkins Gilman]], and was an avid proponent of the ideas of [[G. Stanley Hall]]. Addams belief in eugenics was tied to her desire to eliminate what she perceived to be '[[social ills]]':

{{Blockquote|text=Certainly allied to this new understanding of child life and a part of the same movement is the new science of eugenics with its recently appointed university professors. Its organized societies publish an ever-increasing mass of information as to that which constitutes the inheritance of well-born children. When this new science makes clear to the public that those diseases which are a direct outcome of the social evil are clearly responsible for race deterioration, effective indignation may at last be aroused, both against preventable infant mortality for which these diseases are responsible, and against the ghastly fact that the survivors among these afflicted children infect their contemporaries and hand on the evil heritage to another generation.<ref>Addams, Jane. ''A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil''. pp 60–61</ref><ref>{{ cite web | url = https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15221/15221-h/15221-h.htm | title = A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil | first = Jane | last = Addams }}</ref>}}