Should All Children Be Taken Away From Parents' Control?
KEEN CONTROVERSY (Australian and N.Z. Press Association)
Reed. 12.48 p.m. LONDOfI, Wednes. There is considerable interest in a declaration by the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand Russell, in the course of a debate with Mrs. Cecil Chesterton, that children should he removed from parental control because of the bad influence of depriving children of their originality. She maintained that they should learn early independence under the supervision of qualified persons. She had sent her own two children to a nursery school, from which they returned and said they wanted to live there always.
Mrs. Chesterton viewed “institutionalism” with horror. She pictured standardised children, hardly distinguishable from each other. She urged that the majority of women still wanted husbands and children. Dame Hudson Lyall, chairman of the Mothers’ Union, interviewed, said: “The day England abolishes the home will be the death-knell of her future. It is a preposterous suggestion.” Viscountess Erleigh, of the Baby Week organisation, said a mother invariably understands her child better than anyone else.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 476, 4 October 1928, Page 9
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