Child-care centres
Sir, — I can’t believe Mrs Kerrisk'(N.O.W.) when she suggests children may generally benefit from child-cafe centres. Some children from particularly deprived backgrounds may benefit, but the average New Zealand home would surely offer far better conditions for providing intellectually, emotionally and socially adjusted people than any day-care centre could. Young children need a close relationship with one particular person and while Victorian nannies could do this, a child-care centre erriplpyee looking after several young children at one time may not be able to. Finally could I challenge her on her comment about- a woman needing a career to feel she is a person. I feel a perfectly adequate person whije seriously bringing up mv two pre-schoolers and many other mothers would feel the same way. One can still develop career interests once one’s children are at school. — YourS, etc., MARJORIE ABRAHAMSON. June 21,1974.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33568, 24 June 1974, Page 12
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