Mothers Who Desert
Sir, —Will you allow me a small space in your valuable paper to point out that the Matrimonial Maintenance Law as it now stands (since 1910) should be amended so as to deal with mothers who desert their home and children without any cause whatsoever. When a mother does this kind of thing, as the lavv stands at present, she goes scot free. When this Act was brought into force mothers did not desert their children, and I am sure if the law was amended so that a mother deserting her children could be made by Court to assist in. maintaining the children she deserts, she would think before doing so, for she would, know that if an order were made against her by Court it Avould stand till the child would reach the age of 16. I do not mean the order under the Destitution Act as now in force. I am sure an Act like tins Avould appeal to the magistrates and judges of the Courts, and would keep a lot of homes together; there are hundreosbeing broken up in NeAv Zealand today, I am, etc., J. F. BATES. Johnsonville, September 00.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 7, 4 October 1943, Page 4
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