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EQUALITY OF THE SEXES

—* The "unwanted child" was discussed by Dr. Hugh Crichton Miller recently, at a conference of health, before visitors and school nurses at Bedford College for Women, London. "Sometimes a boy is born and the mother really wanted a girl and she is disappointed," said Dr. CrichtonMiller. . "It is tragic from the point of view. of the boy. I have seen one of the most hopelessly, effeminate persons in a boy of 24 years as a result of this. "He was a fourth son and his mother wanted a girl. Some day an un- . fortunate young woman may be persuaded to marry that young man and she will awake to the realisation that she has married a wife instead of a husband. "Then we have the far more common case of the girl who was to have been a boy Often enough the girl feels a sense of inferiority for being a girl. You try to alter all this by giving them the vote and admitting them to the Bar, but it is all futile. "The only thing that matters is what the mother values most. If a mother has four daughters and wants a son there is bound to be inferiority. Probably out of that batch of four number one will escape. Sometimes number four will escape, because she is the youngest, but numbers two and three are almost certain to incur that disappointment on the part of the mother, and the children get to know this and immediately feel that sense of inferiority. "When the average mother really wants the baby daughter as much as • the son, whether the serial number is one or four, then wo shall have equality between the sexes. Until that happens Parliamentary measures will be of no use at all."

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Shannon News, 3 May 1927, Page 1

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300

EQUALITY OF THE SEXES Shannon News, 3 May 1927, Page 1

EQUALITY OF THE SEXES Shannon News, 3 May 1927, Page 1

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