THE EMPTY CRADLE.
The falling birth-rate can definitely be attributed to the spread of education, culture, refinement, and the general betterment of the conditions nnder which the whole of the people live- Tbe greatest single adverse factor is undoubtedly the emancipation •«f woman. She has edged her way into politics, professions, and business; in these, and in her social and artistic activities she claims that the highest form of her expression lies, disregarding the fact that the pursuit of these things diverts her from her fundamental purpose in life, that, of being fruitful, of multiplying and replenishing the earth. A spokeswoman hae said that whether a woman hae a family or not is her own and no other person's busjnese. This may be granted if it is admitted that "she owes nothing to posterity—that it is honourable behaviour for her to accept everything bequeathed by her ancestors, and then go out of the "world, leaving it as a result of her default, in a worse condition than ehc found it. J.WJL
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 6
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171THE EMPTY CRADLE. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 223, 19 September 1940, Page 6
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