HEARING CHILDREN.

Auckland Star, Volume 55, Issue 152, 28 June 1924, Page 13

HEARING CHILDREN.

(To the Editor.) j Sir, —It is wrong to hear youni • wives say. Oh, we can't afford to have children as it costs too much! Where I come from in Battersea, London, there . are maternity homes and nurses where I young probationers are trained under I a lady doctor, and certified midwives. !. They pay fees for their training and ', charge patients according to their means, \ 5/ to 10/, while in some cases attendance is gratis. I had these nurses six i times and their care and attention was perfect. A midwife and probationer attend in every case and a'doctor if it is found necessary. If things were made a bit easier for poor folks here, there would be more happy homes. A home without children is no home at all; children make happiness, patch up little quarrels, and oh, when a woman is left as I am, a widow, they are God's greatest blessing and comfort, and a rock to lean on in your old age. But children must be brought itp properly. It is large families; tha-t leann to be unselfish, forbearing'and "hapjvy, gven in poor circumstances.—l am, etc., A GRATEFUL MOTHER.