Familial Relations. While not passed at the height of the eugenics movement, the law was written with the intention of implementing population control and marriage restriction. According to the law, a man and a woman entering into marriage should have the legal aptitude to marry. Disabled people and those with venereal and other diseases that were perceived to be hereditary were barred from marriage so that they can not procreate and damage the family unit and the interests of the species. Among other things, the law legalized divorce, on the justification that individuals should be allowed to separate from partners legally who might not be "fit" enough to reproduce. Sex education A key component of Mexican eugenics was education. Pieces of the revolutionary constitution focused on public education, which was meant to be available to everyone, regardless of social standing. In addition to the push for access to public education, the federal government attempted to bring sex education into schools. State efforts for education were connected to the eugenic agenda. Those who were in positions of power in the Department of Public Healthy and the Ministry of Public Education were the same people who attended the First Mexican Congress of the Child, a conference on the application of eugenics to family building. It was thought that sex education could prevent the degeneration of the race by eliminating certain social problems, such as syphilis, tuberculosis, and alcoholism. In the 1930s, a committee appointed by the Secretary of Public Education issued a report on the necessity of sex education in Mexico. The committee argued that sex education was an absolute necessity for healthy and normal development. The report concluded that a lack of sex education was the primary cause of negative personal habits and was responsible for the supposed decline of society. The committee, under the Secretary of Public Education, put forth a set of recommendations to implement sex education programs in schools. The proposal for this type of educational program came with several stipulations, many of which echoed eugenic ideas. Pupils in elementary schools were to be classified according to their sex and capacities. Those who were deemed incapable should be moved to separate schools for physically, mentally, and morally abnormal students. It would be the Department of Hygiene that had the ultimate authority of reclassification and reorganization of the abnormal. The committee's outline for sex education ended by stating that