MOTHERS AT WORK
Sir,-I agree with your correspondents who commended a recent panel on their realistic approach to the problem of mothers at work.. The discussion convinced me that economic necessity will continue to drive many mothers to work in spite of all protests that their place is in the home, Yet the plight of children of absentee parents, before and after school and in holidays, has been revealed by recent investigation te be in many cases no less real. How can the two sides of the problem be reconciled? Basil Henriques, an experienced social worker in England, suggests in his book The Home Menders that the only solution lies in enforced regulation of the hours worked by the mother of young children. He refers to the time last century when factory-owners fought the abolition of child labour on the grounds that it was indispensable to industry--and yet in time they adjusted themselves to do without it, Opposition to mothers working only in school hours, and to legislation preventing their employment beyond those times, would, he states, be similarly overcome if it could be effectively shown that the nation depends on more security in the home.
M.J.
B.
(Christchurch)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 5
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199MOTHERS AT WORK New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 894, 21 September 1956, Page 5
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