NOT ENOUGH OF US

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 211, 9 July 1943, Page 3

NOT ENOUGH OF US

Sir,-No, there aren’t enough of us, but how can there be with prices as they are, and help too hard or too expensive for the average mother to obtain?) And what about when the mother comes out of the home-on, the twelfth day now-and has no help of any kind? There’s hardly anything more tiring than feeding a baby. A cow in a paddock rests and eats all the time it is making milk. What can the average mother do? A new-born baby takes a lot of time up. But that’s’ nothing. There’s the house, not modern, there’s the husband, not always amenable; there’s young three and a-half to be kept off the road,

There’s a garden_calling out for atten-tion-the husband hasn’t as much time now with Home Guard. And above all, there’s the fact that there’s not much left out of £5/10/ after 37/6 a week has gone out for rent and insurances started in better times, and that must be kept up, and for food, clothing and education for four people. Anyway, it’s easy enough for a man, M.P. or not, to condemn birth-control; let him go through the first three months after conception and see how he likes it. Mrs. J. Pearce certainly has said the tight things in the right way. My own second child arrives soonnot a mistake-but it is certainly going to be my last. Where would be the money for a third? Even now there arises before me the spectre of good education — not every child can get

scholarships.-

P.

(Christchurch).