BISHOP AND GIRL MOTHERS.
THE DEVIL THE FIRE, AND THE TOW. Pleas on behalf of the unmarried mother were put forward at the Infants' Welfare Conference, by among others the Bishop of Kensington (the Right Rev. J. Primatt Maud), who said 6he and her child needed the care of the State quite as much as the married woman and her child.
'Call illegitimacy a mistake if you like," he said. "It is a tragic mistake. The tracredy is that any child should possibly be born into the world unwanted by its mother, disowned and deserted by its father, or that the society into which it is born should not grant it immediate and hospitable welcome." Dr. Leeson. of Twickenham, on the other hand, said: "You are all here good people, _ you all have large hearts, but 1 question whether you have good brains. If I were to put up for parliament I would have three planks in my platform— Free Beer, Free Love, and no Taxation and I would romp in at the top of the poll. (Loud lauchter). But they are all wrong ; man is fire, but a woman ia tow and the devil seta them alight."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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198BISHOP AND GIRL MOTHERS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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