BIRTH RATE
DROP IN AMERICA MONTREAL, June 4. There will be a million fewer children in tho common schools of America b> 1940 owing to the diminishing birth rate of the country, due to fewer marriages and delayed marriages because of the economic situation, accoiding to Dr. Ellen Potter, medical director of the Department of Institutions and Agencies, Trenton, N.J., speaking to the Chi c Welfare League, of America, the Child Welfare League had to face Lins tact and also the rapid increase in the population of those over 65 years ol age, an increase between 1860 and ol neailv ICO per cent. . “Wo shall find a heavy back-breaking load on tiro backs of young families for the supporting of the aged if our social security programme does not, become a reality,” she said, “and this will place child"welfare in jeopardy. The rapidly increasing divorce or separation of parents. iv\*,b its increasing mental and emotional conflict for the child, will mean more need lor mental hygiene service, both for the child and his parents and foster'parents.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18761, 18 July 1935, Page 11
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