REVOLUTION IN HOME LIFE.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 8 October 1926, Page 9

REVOLUTION IN HOME LIFE.

Child as Modern Despot. GENERAL REVOLT SINCE THE WAR. By Cable —Preie Association —Copyright. Au.trallan ami N.Z. Cxble Assoeiai.— (Recoivcd October 7, 7.55 p.m.) LONDON, October G. Mrs Louise Creighton, widow of the famous historian, opened a striking discussion at tho Church .Congiesa, upon the “Revolution in Homo Life. Mrs Creighton asked if children owed any natural gratitude to theii parents and proceeded to say : “V hatever lathers and mothers thought, many children replied to-day: ‘Ton brought us into the world for your own pleasure.’ Children of tho "Victorian age were regarded a-s tho property of their parents, but tho modern despot, is the child. The parentis are supposed to exist for the good of the children. It is futile to resist tho change. It should bo admitted. This is a different ago for tho young; there is disillusionment in the air. Everything is being questioned. Since tho war there has been a general revolt against any form of discipline. The elders seo the necessity for hard work, but the young drown tho thought in a feverish rush after pleasure.”