Unmarried mothers
The unmarried mother is someone New Zealand knows something about — to the tune of 8000 a year. More and more of the girls who find themselves in this situation are keeping their children, notwithstanding the knowledge that it is a long lonely struggle in the face of society. But just what does society think of the mother who keeps her child, what help does she get? In “Gone L'p North For A While” the National Film Unit looks into the whole question of the unmarried mother in New Zealand society. Because some of the case histories compiled were so harrowing, and because a purely documentary approach to an essentially human problem would be too cold, they opted for the dramatiseddocumentary style, and present the story of one girl, who decides to keep her baby. “Gone Up North For A While,” produced by Ronald Bowie. features Denise Maunder as the girl, and her husband, Paul Maunder, was the writer-director.
"Gone Up North For A While” screens from all channels this evening.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32964, 10 July 1972, Page 4
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172Unmarried mothers Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32964, 10 July 1972, Page 4
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