Deserted Wives
Sir, —The reply of the Registrar of the Social Security Department to M. Rossiter is open to question. Except within the narrowest limits, many wives who are deserted are entitled only to an emergency benefit. The wife may be an innocent party, trying beyond wisdom to hold a marriage together, but she may crack emotionally, and go home to mother because she can take it no longer. She can (sometimes) obtain an emergency benefit. With five children she would receive £5 6s emergency benefit and £3 15s child allowance if she maintained her own home. She is warned not to earn. If she goes housekeeping, on even £1 a week, she loses the benefit. These girls under stress fall to temptation and their children become delinquents. That great liberal, the Minister of Justice, has drawn attention to anomalies. —Yours, etc., INTERESTED. March 8, 1966.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 12
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146Deserted Wives Press, Volume CV, Issue 31004, 9 March 1966, Page 12
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