Crumbling Edifice
HE last of the Family talks I heard "from 2YA was Dr. Eleanor Mears’s Husband and Wife, and the thing that impressed me most about it was the extreme melancholy of Dr. Mears’s delivery and outlook. And looking back over the series I realised that this attitude was not confined to Dr. Mears, that, with the possible exception of two talks on child upbringing, they had
all been somewhat defeatist. The family ain’t what it used to be. Children (paradoxically enough) haven’t the same chance now that there aren’t so many of them. The Family is no longer a sound economic unit, and with the dissolution of economic partnership the bonds of family inevitably loosen. ... Women now don’t put as much into marriage as they did before other careers were open to them. ... Modern marriages tend to break if the woman has a career outside the home. . .. Marriages tend to break if the woman has no outside interests. But though most of the speakers seemed to think that family life was getting more and more complicated and less and less satisfactory there was no _ suggestion that we should relax our efforts to bolster up the crumbling edifice, scrap it altogether or have something else instead. The Old, Grey Mare she ain’t
what she used to be, but a few injections of applied psychology will keep her going for some time yet. And none of our speakers would dream of trading her in for one of these new-fangled gas buggies.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 477, 13 August 1948, Page 19
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251Crumbling Edifice New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 477, 13 August 1948, Page 19
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