NOT ENOUGH OF US.
Sir,-"P" (Christchurch) grasped the point of my last letter so well that she tried to sidetrack. Her statement that after her second child arrives there shall be no more seemed the main point of her earlier letter. I would ask her has she ever done any of the farm work mentioned in my. last letter. Evidently not, or she would not say a woman just out of hospital ought to be able to do it. If feeding a baby tires her, three to four hours every day tramping round hills behind horses, forking hay, and pulling swedes, even through all the rain and hail we had early in June, would almost kill her. Secondly, I would like to ask, has "P" ever seen a mother of ten selfish? I’ve always found the mothers of large families jolly good natured women, ready with sympathy and help in any one else’s troubles, As one of a family of 10 with all the men folk either overseas or passed fit for overseas, I cannot agree that families of 10 would be C3. On the contrary, the one or two pampered children in a small family are generally the ailing ones, It would have been a poor look-out for "P." and everyone else in the British Empire if all the women had said years ago "After my second child arrives there shall not be any more,"
ONE OF MANY
(Putaruru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 218, 27 August 1943, Page 3
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