WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
“A great many women become economically independent before they marry and when they marry they expect to keep up the standard of living they had as single women/’ said Lady Ruth Balfour, physician and surgeon, in a recent address. “Very often it is impossible for them to carry on work after their marriage, and when they share a small income with their hus band their standard of living tends to be lower, with the result that there is a tendency throughout this country and in Europe to limit the families sin ply to maintain the standard of livnig they had before marriage. That was not the intention of our women reformers. Wo have got to realise that the joy of children means not only serenity for our old age and something which transcends all other interests, but that if we are to consider our ideals worth maintaining in a world which is becoming increasingly hostile to them, then we must produce the children who are to carry on those ideals.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 18, 1 November 1938, Page 4
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