Child care plea
Wellington reporter I The Minister of Social Welfare had again shown his lack of understanding of the needs of women by his rejection of the suggestion that the Government had a responsibility for child care, the Member of Parliament for Avon (Mrs M. Bachelor) said. “His comment that the family is the paramount unit of child care would have more meaning if his Government was prepared to make it financially possible for
this to happen by providing means of support to the family group,” she said. ; Mr Walker appeared to limply that he favoured child care only where the family unit was of such calibre that the child was in need of outside care. “He would be better advised to try to accept the changes in society by recognising that good child care for all may go some way to alleviating the problems of a (growing number of our ] children,” Mrs Batchelor said.
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Press, 25 February 1978, Page 22
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