NOT ENOUGH OF US
sir,-No, 1 did not sidetrack. I said there would be no more in my family because of the lack of money to bring them up as they should be brought up, "One of Many" has not explained how to rear and educate 10 children on £5/10/- per week. Granted, I spoke of all the work entailed and am _ not ashamed again to say it. I certainly haven’t done all the work "One of Many" has done, but I’ve seen the men when they’ve come in from doing it, and they are no more tired than the woman of the house, and I doubt if as tired, I still maintain that feeding a baby, plus the house, sewing, and gardening, is more tiring than three to four hours a day farmwork, I didn’t say a mother of ten was selfish with her children, I said it was selfish to
have ten children with absolutely no prospect of providing even moderately for them, I’m afraid I haven’t got the cheek to let "God provide" as she sug-gests-in other words, sponge on relations and neighbours.
P
(Christchurch).
(We have no space for further letters on this subject, ‘‘P’s" letter has been severely condensed.-Ed.).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 220, 10 September 1943, Page 3
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204NOT ENOUGH OF US New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 220, 10 September 1943, Page 3
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