CHILDREN IN HOSPITAL
Sir-As the mother of two small children, and a trained nurse, I disagree with several of the expressed opinions of your "Children in Hospital" article. First, I query the sentiment of the qucted article from the Journal of the American Medical Association Trust as an adult emotion. A child has merely instinctive awareness. It demands, but is not conscious of, love and stability. Surely the greater the measure of a happy and loving home atmosphere so, proportionately, taken away by hospitalisation, the greater the emotional shock and distress to the unreasoning small child. I grant the many difficulties of daily visiting, and there are more here than in Britain, but let not this blind authorities to its desirability. To a Senior Pediatrician I would point out that you cannot explain a hospital routine to an eighteen-month toddler. It is wishful thinking to say that no personality damage results from what, to a small child, is a terrific upheaval going from home to hospital, and a most desolate loss with "Mummy gone now!" A wiser man has said that the first five years of life are all important: they make or mar the man,
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
CNew Plymouth).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 728, 26 June 1953, Page 5
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