Personal Life
Firth married Rosemary Firth (née Upcott) in 1936. They had one son, Hugh, who was born in 1946. Rosemary died in 2001. Raised a Methodist, Firth later became a humanist, a decision influenced by his anthropological studies. He was one of the signers of the Humanist Manifesto.
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“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters ‘woman’s peculiar sphere,’ her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)