ENDOW MOTHERHOOD.
Tlie place of women in the and in the Stale is the subject uf Mr 11. (i. Wells most recent contribution t)o current literature.. Like every thing cisc that M Weils does, the Jitile pamphlet "Socialism and the Family,' published by Mr A. C. Fifield, London, which discusses these important questions, is novel and entertaining. Mr Wells attacks h:s problem inun the conception of tin' cli'd as the most potential in the Slate. Women as the nurses and educators mf the children are thu?» 'n a position of extreme rcspons bilitv. "My idea," ho says, that ito' State] seeing thai in the new birth 1 the hope <it the race, and that in the '•h'M we have a blank page upon wli ch
■ rail wr tc what, we will, shall endow motherhood. A woman With healthy aiid succes.-ful otlMprlng wil' draw a wage for each one ot' ihein lv :i in the State,, so long as they go on wol.. It will he her wago. I'nder the Stale she, will control her child'.-. upbringing. "How far her hu>band will share in the power of direction is a matter ot detail upon which opinion may vary, and does vary widely. 1 suppose toi the most part, people incline to a conception of a joint control. Hut the monstrous injustice of the present time which makes a mother dependent upon the economic accident of her man, which plunges the Ih'-L of w ve-> and the most admirable of children, into abject poverty if lie happens lo tlie, which vi.-ils the sius of waste and carelessness upon them far more than upon himself, will disappeai. "So. too, the still more monstrous absnrditv of women discharging ihe r supreme' social function, bearing ami rearing children, in their spare lime, as it 'were, while they 'earn their living by contributing some hall-im.-chanical element to some ttf.vial industrial product will disappear." And he claims that such recognition of the children as the nation's cli Mren "is quite incompatible, with a marriage contract of far greater stmgency than 'that recognised throughout Christendom to-day."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 14 March 1907, Page 4
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348ENDOW MOTHERHOOD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 57, 14 March 1907, Page 4
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