MOTHERHOOD
I have read with growing interest your various correspondents' views on the subject, and now I venture to add my own. I am a young mother of 27, and have two children under five and another expected soon. Strange as it seems, I am very pleased and proud of the privilege. My husband and I would be very happy if we could be sure that our little ones will net be deprived, through our financial position, of opportunities that an only child would have had. Do your readers wonder, then, when we~parents ponder before bringing children into the world? To start with the nursing home—when the Social Security maternity benefit came into being we thought it a splendid thing, but except for St. Helens and one or two others the nursing homes in Auckland charge from five to seven guineas extra: circumcision is extra, as are washing and extra medicines. Then, travel—it costs halffare on trams, trains and buses for children aged three years and over. Their clothes are almost as costly as our own. However, it is still a privilege and an honour, and with God's help and that of the' best o? husbands we'll bring up our fair quota of healthy, happy New Zealanders. HOME MAKER,
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1942, Page 6
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