FAMILY LIVING CONDITIONS
One cannot help being surprised at those people who advocate parents raising larger families, because there are so many reasons why parents should decide not to have a large family. First is the lack of adequate housing for large families. Then we find that the mother of a large family is nothing more than a slave (a willing one, no doubt), one who has to give up nine-tenths of ordinary human enjoyments 'for her children's sake. In times like the present, despite Government talk to the contrary, the rise in the cost of living hits the parents very hard. Oh, yes! We fathers are all getting high wages now, but a wage which in reality is very poor in comparison with the price of clothes, etc. And then there is the extra 10 per cent sales tax we pay on our children's clothes, a sort of penalty for having them. Yes, unless we can guarantee parents adequate housing, good wages and a universal family wage, the days of the large family will never come again.
FATHER OF TWO.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 121, 24 May 1944, Page 4
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