Family Life
HE series of talks on The Family now well-launched from 2YA_ on Friday nights should have the effect of propping up the tottering edifice and casting’ a romantic anthropological aura over an institution we have always taken for granted,-and for worse rather than better. Nurtured hitherto on The Barretts of Wimpole Street we have perhaps tended to regard the Family as something to be escaped from, or in gloomier moments, as the Dear Octopus from whom there is no escape, In the first talk Professor Field touched on the long and honourable history of marriage and the family, in the second
Mr. Danks regretfully wrote it off as an economic unit, stressing, however, its social value and by implication urging us to- Accept No Substitutes. Now that economic necessity is no longer the strong inducement it was for strengthening the bonds of family, Mr. Danks argues that there must be a
--- : ~ conscious effort by all members to make the family a staying concern. I am always well disposed to talks of this type, which enable us to see impersonally and in the perspective of tradition situations which we, because of our involvement, cannot see in the round. As it looks as though we shall be living in families for some centuries to come, it is good to be helped to an intelligent interest in what we must perforce experience,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 13
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231Family Life New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 472, 9 July 1948, Page 13
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