WARNING TO FATHERS
HANDLING OF CHILDREN A warning to fathers that they should not become people to be feared by their children is given in the South Australian Central Board of Health’s latest bulletin. It used to be the fashion, contends the bulletin, for the father to have very little to do with young children, except perhaps when the mother’s illness forced him to help look after them. Today fathers were becoming more interested in younger children and helped to take care of them. They bathed them and put them to bed. This should be encouraged by the mother. The father who entered closely and joyfully into the lives of his young children was helping to give them the idea of a man as a loving "human” [person —and ideal all-important in shaping their future attitude to relations between the sexes.
The bulletin further states that if the father has little to do with the younger children except to punish them, he becomes a person to be feared —someone who stands in their lives in direct contrast to their mothers, whom they know intimately.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22637, 14 May 1948, Page 3
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184WARNING TO FATHERS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22637, 14 May 1948, Page 3
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