CHILDREN AND HAPPINESS

Evening Star, Issue 20372, 2 January 1930, Page 9

CHILDREN AND HAPPINESS

VIEWS OF PARENTS ASTONISHING ANSWERS TO NEWSPAPER QUESTION Prosa Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, January 1. (Received January 2, at 9.5 a.m.) 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 number of the letters in the ‘ Chronicle ’ say that children are a frequent cause of unhappiness between husbands and wives. One mother of eighteen children writes; —“Modern children are greedy and are never satisfied. They make the husband drift from the wife.” A modern mother, aged twenty-nine, writes that men have altered since our mother’s day. The average man spends his evenings at the club or on the dirt track. I have suffered agony in bringing my boy up alone. No more children for me. They are the cause of many quarrels.” A, young widow with a child, who married again, says: “No more youngsters. Affection between husband and wife goes as soon as children arrive.” On the contrary, a number of correspondents are of the opinion that children keep parents young and make life fuller and richer.