Welfare payments
Sir, — Responding to the perceptive “Press” editorial, the New Zealand Party explained why it
suggested reassessing' welfare payments. This confirms mothers need basic support. Depriving women, already under stress, of both money and children, will worsen a situation probably caused by insufficient community underpinning. There is insufficient education in human relationships, sex and contraceptives, yet abortion is severely restricted. Pregnancy care is cruelly fragmented, especially for clinic patients, and birthing is manipulated. Just days after birth women who are discharged, insufficiently grounded in breastfeeding and child care, often face inadequate home help, medical follow-up and money. Resultant post-natal depression can be tragic. With insufficient child care establishments, women (married or unmarried) lack relief from a 24-hour seven-day week. Adoption and foster care have failed many — children and mothers. Health, welfare and education expenditure, giving women dignity in all childrearing areas, would save on justice and health later. Men’s part in conception makes financing these from taxation reasonable. — Yours, etc., BETTY ROBERTS. Co-ordinator, N.O.W. Christchurch. November 28, 1985.
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