CHILDREN IN THE HOME
DO THEY BRING HAPPINESS? London, January 1. Readers of the “Daily Chronicle” are giving astonishing answers to the question, “Do children bring happiness?” It might' be supposed that the vast majority would answer “Yes,’ but a considerable proportion of the letters in the “Chronicle” say that children are the frequent cause of unhappiness between husbands and wives. One mother of eighteen children writes that modern children are greedy and never satisfied. They make the husband drift from the wife. A modern mother, aged twenty-nine, writes that “men have altered since our mothers’ day. An average man spends ins evenings at the club or dirttrack. I have suffered agony in bringing my boy up alone. No more children for me. They cause’too many quarrels.” _ . A young widow, with a child, married again, says: “No more youngsters. Affection between husband and wife goes as soon as children arrive.” On the contrary, a considerable num ber of correspondents hold that children keep parents young and mai> Me fuller and richer.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 9
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