A QUERY

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1930, Page 4

A QUERY

INTERESTING REPLIES.

(United Press Association—-By: Kleetrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 8 n.m.) LONDON, Jan. L V Readers of the “Daily ChronicJe” are giving astonishing answers to the question, “Do children bring happiness.’’ It might be supposed that a vast majority would answer je s but a considerable portion of the letters in the “Chronicle” say child- , ren are frequently the cause of unhappiness between husbands and! wives. One mother of eighteen children writes:—“Modern children are .greedy and are never satisfied. They make !rV ' the husband drift from the wife.” !r A modern mother, aged 29, writes that men have altered since cur mother’s day. The average nan. spends the evening Vat the club or on. the dirt track. II have suffered', agony bringing my boy up alone. No* J more children for me. They are the* M cause of over many quarrels. A young widow with a child vho married again says:—No more young- \ sters. Affection between husband and , - A wife goes as soon as children arrive. iWfm On the contrary a number of correspondents are of opinion that children keep . parents young and maka life fuller and richer. ■ \ *