LIVING IN FLATS
Sir,-I do not think the theory put forward in the article "Family Health in Flats and Tenements" (August 10) accords with the facts. The tenement flat hag been the accepted form of housing in the cities of Scotland probably Since the industrial revolution. A rehousing drive thirty-odd years ago, moving people to houses with gardens in the outskirts, "broke the patriarchal family system and scattered the family unit geographically" without producing symptoms. "Mother emotional breakdown" was, of course, unknown, but "mother employment" quickly produces this modern malady. Scotland has always lived in flats, England is now adopting flats, New Zealand has no flats and yet their social problems are almost identical. Juvenile delinquency alone reveals the emotional instability of the family in New Zealand now, without the "potent factor" of "flats." This kind of reasoned nonsense can do infinite harm and should not be given prominence. It merely diverts our attention from the real cause of our ills and so delays the curing of them.
LILIAN
LEITCH
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 5
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171LIVING IN FLATS New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 892, 7 September 1956, Page 5
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