Family life
Sir, —The visiting feminist therapist from the United States, Mrs Betty Carter and Ms Marianne Walters (July 21), subsidised by the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, have a hidden agenda of getting more women in the workforce. They participate in linguistic guerrilla warfare by labelling' anything that promotes a woman to get out and work with warm neutral labels. They ignore the problems that we, as counsellors, have to deal with as a result of shortage of time for relationships. Problems
in marriage are linked with poverty (hence the need for working women) and inability to accept the woman’s new role. Broken relationships serve as a springboard to "alternative lifestyles” and “new options” of the feminists. One wonders whether this new breed of family counsellors put the feminist cause ahead of the people they are trying to help. In the end relationships will suffer. — Yours, etc., JOHN STEENHOF. Wainuiomata, July 23, 1986.
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Press, 30 July 1986, Page 20
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