MATERNAL DISAPPOINTMENTS
TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES OFTEN
FOLLOW. [By Electric Cable—Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] LONDON, Jan. 5. “When a mother wants a girl and gets a boy, and vice versa, the consequences are often tragic,” said Dr. Crichton-Miller, director of the Tavistock Clinic for functional nerve cases. “I know a hopelessly effeminate youth, aged 24, who was the fourth son of a mother who wanted a girl and who treated him as a girl. If an unfortunate woman marries him she will realise that she has married a wife, not a husband. Unwanted girls are more common and, consequently, they acquire a sense of inferiority. It is futile to give them the vote and ad. mit them to the professions. The only thing that matters Is what the mother wants most.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LII, Issue 3499, 7 January 1927, Page 7
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