CHILDREN BRING DISCORD, MANY MOTHERS DECLARE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18958, 2 January 1930, Page 1

CHILDREN BRING DISCORD, MANY MOTHERS DECLARE.

Frequently Cause Unhappiness Between Husband And Wife.

(United Press Association.—By Electric Telegruph.—Copyright.) (Received January 2, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. Readers of the “Daily Chronicle” are giving astonishing answers to the question, “Do children bring happiness? ” It might be supposed that the vast majority would answer “ Yes,” but a considerable portion of the letters in the “ Chronicle ” says that children are a frequent cause of unhappiness between husbands and wives. One mother of eighteen children writes: “ Modern children are greedy and are never satisfied. They make a husband drift from his wife.” A modern mother, aged 29, writes that " men have altered since our mother’s day. The average man spends his evenings at the club or on the dirt track. I suffered agony bringing my boy up alone. No more children for me. They are the cause of over-many quarrels.” A young widow, with one child, who has married again, says: “No more youngsters. Affection between a husband and wife goes as soon as children arrive.” A number of correspondents on the contrary are of the opinion that children keep parents young and make life fuller and richer.