CRIME AND THE CHILD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 6

CRIME AND THE CHILD.

The well-meaning people who are endeavouring to Ivan magazinos dealing with crime and sex may have good intentions, but I think they are wrong'. T believe (and practice) that the child should have complete freedom in what it chooses to read. Parents have^ndeavourcd to impose their ideals authority 011 a generation who are to live in a new. unknown -world where they will have to face completely different conditions and realities. Repressions and forbidding command* curb the ego of the child and so make it bad. Suppression awake-: defiance and defianee seeks revenge bv ! breaking the law- of the home and State, j Heading about crime may suggest method-, [but it cannot implant anything which lias ! not already been contemplated. If parents j could learn to love and respect their children illii'V won id soon see that it is the law that makes the crime. The free and happy chill lis, the good child. Freedom that allows the child to live and be naturally good, to grow with 110 fears or suppressions, will produce a j .general ion that will Ik? closer to a jcivilit-ation than we have ever known, j C. M. BARTOX.