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Healthful Living
235. Thousands are devoid of principle. These very ones are trans-
mitting to their offspring their own miserable, corrupt passions. What
a legacy! Thousands drag out their unprincipled lives, tainting their
associates, and perpetuating their debased passions by transmitting
them to their children.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:351
.
236. You have transmitted to your children a miserable legacy; a
depraved nature rendered still more depraved by your gross habits of
eating and drinking.—
Testimonies for the Church 2:62
.
Parents Sin against Children
237. Parents sin not only against themselves in swallowing drug
poisons, but they sin against their children. The vitiated state of the
blood, the poison distributed throughout the system, the broken consti-
tution, and various diseases, as the result of drug poisons, are transmit-
ted to their offspring, and left to them a wretched inheritance, which is
another great cause of the degeneracy of the race.—
How to Live, 50
.
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Mental and Moral Effects of Heredity
238. Tobacco and liquor stupefy and defile the user. But the evil
does not stop here. He transmits irritable tempers, polluted blood,
enfeebled intellects, and weak morals to his children.—
Testimonies
for the Church 4:31
.
239. Those who have indulged the appetite for these stimulants
have transmitted their depraved appetites and passions to their children
and greater moral power is required to resist intemperance in all its
forms.—
Testimonies for the Church 3:488
.
240. As a rule, every intemperate man who rears children transmits
his inclinations and evil tendencies to his offspring.—
Testimonies for
the Church 4:30
.
241. Parents who freely use wine and liquor leave to their children
the legacy of a feeble constitution, mental and moral debility, unnatural
appetites, irritable temper, and an inclination to vice.... The child of the
drunkard or the tobacco inebriate usually has the depraved appetites
and passions of the father intensified, and at the same time inherits
less of his self-control and strength of mind.—
The Health Reformer,
August 1, 1878
.