SOLDIERS' CHILDREN
It is an injustice that the mothers of soldiers' children receive only 10/6 per week when State children can be boarded out at 15/ per week. State children are mostly children who have been left through the death of parents and guardians to the care of the State, or unwanted children. This is no fault of the children, and I agree they must be cared for, but why are the children of soldiers, etc., only worth 10/6? The soldiers' wives are giving up far more, in as much as. alone, they have to do double duty to their "children. Noting the mention of Mr. Algie having taken up the cudgels on behalf of the wives of these men, I would like to wish him every success, for I am now a soldier's wife with three children and I know the responsibility which sometimes falls very heavily on our shoulders. I have a boy whom 10/6 per week does not keep. He is still at school, and we live plainly. In the next column to "Letters to the Editor" on Saturday was •■Cretan's" verse with the lines: "My brother, your aims and "tasks are mine" and also ''Each is his brother's keeper. Is this in harmony with the treatment of soldiers' children? ANOTHER ONE OF THEM.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 88, 15 April 1942, Page 6
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