Unwanted Babies
Sir,—lt is time that the Government set up a Royal Commission to inquire into our illegitimacy problems. One of the main causes of illegitimacy is the decline in closeness of family life. 1 know of children who ask advice from their parents, only to be told to keep quiet while the television is on, or find out for themselves. Most of the single girls who become pregnant have little knowledge of biology, and so have learnt about sex not from school biology and their parents, but from smutty paperbacks which say that chastity before marriage is not fashionable. A woman who becomes pregnant outside wedlock should receive State help and advice. Her child needs love and care which only she can give it— Yours, etc., DISILLUSIONED NATIONALIST. April 22, 1968.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31661, 23 April 1968, Page 14
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