WISHES OF A MOTHER
TRAGEDY OF DISAPPOINTMENT By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Oopyright. 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 his mother, who wanted a girl and 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 acquire a sense of inferiority. It is futile to give them a vote and admit them to the professions; the only thing that matters is what the mothers want most.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 January 1927, Page 2
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