CHILDREN IN HOME

Gisborne Times, Volume LXX, Issue 11095, 3 January 1930, Page 5

CHILDREN IN HOME

DO THEY' BEING HAPPINESS ? DIVERSE VIEWS OF MOTHERS. United Preaa Assn, by El. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Jan. 1. Readers of tlie Daily Chronicle arc giving astonishing answers to the question: “Do children bring happiness?” It might be supposed that a vast majority would answer “Yes,” but a considerable portion of tlie letters in the Chronicle say children are a frequent cause of unhappiness between husband and wives. One mother of 18 children writes: “Modern children are greedy, and never satisiied. They make a .husband drift from his. wife.” A modern mother, aged 29 years, writes that men have altered since our mothers’ day. “Tlie average man spends his evenings at the club, or on the dirt track,” she says. “I suilered agony bringing my boy up alone. No more children for ine. They are the cause of over-many quarrels.” A young widow with a child, who married again, says: “No more youngsters. .Affection between busband and wife goes as soon as children arrive.”

On the contrary, a number of correspondents are of the opinion that children keep parents young arid make life fuller and richer.