MOTHERS’ PENSIONS.
The Canadian Convention of the W.C.T.VI passed the following resolution : “Realising that the child must have its part in the State craft of our country, and that no country can be moral unless it cares for and unites its interests in favour of the little child; and that the neglected child will grow and permeate and undermine our wasted prosperity and evade our laws, thus becoming a menace to society, and later joining the criminal ranks. “And whereas the child is a national problem, and the nation’s greatest asset, we believe the mother to be the God-given and proper guardian of the child. “Resolved, that steps be taken to urge the Government to introduce legislation for mothers’ pensions, thus making provision for needy and destitute mothers with dependent children, on whom devolves tae responsibility of providing for their maintenance.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 258, 18 December 1916, Page 6
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141MOTHERS’ PENSIONS. White Ribbon, Volume 22, Issue 258, 18 December 1916, Page 6
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