MOTHERS AND HOME LIFE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3391, 21 January 1920, Page 6

MOTHERS AND HOME LIFE.

“All my experience in the Old Country zand in America,’.’ says Dl‘ Truby King to a Christchurch pi-es:sLvna.n, “has simply gone to confirm and aecentuate the New Zealand oppositixm with regard ‘to the Welfare of women and children and its‘ relationship to national fitness and ‘prosperity. I am more than ever impressed with the paramount ‘need of recognis-ing I:h'a.t mother and child sshould be insepar-able—-—t.haAt they should .be regarded as an indivisiblo unit——du.ring flhe fi-rst year or so of .the child's life. ."The worst thing that could happen to any nation is the a.ba.n-donment of home life in order that married Women may earn their living in industrial and other puwsuits at the time when the first requirements of the child are not only that -ti should be fed with brc-est milk; but sthait. it should be nursed at the mother’s own. bl-ez;lJs'L .I't..4',s nt 01113? the duty, but ‘it is the privilege Of the mother, ‘asp-essential for ‘herself as for-thechild:,;stahatni;hiann:Ltural Te--la?ti*onship tsfixoctxld betyfrtxjtaincrgh Any‘ other course isflle 111'~oa.(L.z‘0ad -to‘ economic inefficiency -andgtflmg injury and decadence of tab.-e race, not only from the bodily DOillt._<Qf view, but from the mental and moral-.-‘sta.ndpoin‘t.”