Did Juliette Gordon low want to have kids?

Answer 1

We Don"t know. certain subjects are and were (off Limits) in a controlled society such as the Girl Scouts, publicity can be regulated to ward off controversial topics. She was married, but had no children- whether she wanted to have them or not is an unanswerable question. a sort of paralell- Evangeline Booth ,. who was the head of the Salvation Army, was never married, I was not aware of this until accidentally discovering this fact in a sort of fact-book about the Salvation Army published by the organization. They would- years back talk of her role as the leader of the denominatin in the United states- all sorts of charitable activity, war-merit stuff and all that but neatly skated any ( romance) or personal, off-duty life. I had assumed she was a family woman, so to speak , but she was not. There was no religious doctrine in the SA requiring celibacy, in fact married officers were preferred. He who pays the piper calls the tune, or R.H.I.P. a la Sergeant Bilko . She did ( Mrs. Low) have a moderately serious hearing loss, and may have had other health problems- or perhaps she didn"t want to have kids- but was surely deeply involved with them. Sometimes childless couples( a movie was done on this About a Boy Scout leader- ex Jazz Musician, will plunge headlong into some sort of youth-charity or leadership roles- maybe incited by Guilt or finding a compensation for (Family Loss) infertility was a ( High Yellow) topic for Hollywood, the acceptable simile was ( We Can"t have Children) heck as a kid watching this stuff I wondered if this was in effect a Housing or Landlord ordinance- some apartment managers- and I sympathize to a degree- who wants juvenile crime and vandalism- bar tenants who have children and there is no legal challenge to this. It is an open question. Maybe she was sterile, but found a ( backhand) outlet for the mothering instinct through the organization she founded... who knows.