"MUMMY'S BOYS"

Evening Star, Issue 19764, 14 January 1928, Page 22

"MUMMY'S BOYS"

ENGLAND'S HEW DANGER MEN WHO DON’T MARRY, “When a young man remains unmarried because he docs not want to leave his mot her, people say-: ‘ How beautiful!’ Tho plain truth is that he is still a baby afraid to break the natural tie.” This is tiie startling opinion that Dr Alice Hutchinson gave about the only sons who remain single. Dr Hutchinson was lecturing on tho psychology of parenthood. In the course of her lecture she blamed birth control for tho large number of singlechild families in England. “The only child is a terrible monstrosity,” she declared. “He may replace drink as Britain’s greatest curse.” “ Birth control,” said Dr Hutchinson, “ had wrecked many marriages. Young people marrying at twenty may not be able to continue having children until they are forty, but it, on the other hand, the maternal instinct remained unsatisfied the wife was inclined to harbor animosity against the husband.” Brothers and sisters quarrelled at games, said Dr Hutchinson, in discussing the most complained of “ discomforts ” of large families, but that was because the superficial discord of the parents worked havoc with the family. So-called excellent parenthood methods often made the child selfish, and prevented the development of the best citizens.