HOME LIFE.
PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN. CHURCH CONGRESS DISCUSSION. (Received Thursday, 7.35 p.m.). LONDON October 6. Mrs. Louise Creighton, widow of the famous historian, opened a striking discussion at the Church Congress upon the revolution in home life, asking if children owed any natural gratitude to their parents. Mrs. Creighton added: “Whatever fathers and mothers thought, many children replied to-day: ‘You brought us into the. world for your own pleasure.’ The children of the Victorian age were regarded as tho property of their parents, but the modern despot is the child. Parents arc supposed to exist for the good of their children. It is futile to resist the change. It should be admitted that this is a difficult age for the young. There is disillusionment in the air. Everything is being questioned. Since the war, there has been a general revolt against any form of discipline. The olders see the necessity for hard work, but the young drown thought in a feverish rush after pleasure. ”—(A. and N.Z.).
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Wairarapa Age, 8 October 1926, Page 5
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