New Britain herald., 1930-04-11
"SHOP WINDOWS"

arc QllleTcnCGS Cl OplnlOn about the necessity of women remaining in the home in our modern day there can scarcely ne great diversity Of opinion about the need for mothers who are raising family being oc- cupied at home.
 It is true, married women with children can work in a factory and while there the children can be placed in a day nursery. When the children are grown beyond the nursery stage they can go to school; and the time between the end of school hours and the time when the 1 parents return from work can be 1 passed on the streets or at home with the oldest brother or sister in charge.
 It is an evil system at best, how ever. Children in the vitally forma- tive years need the guidance, inter- est and presence of their parents to grow up into the best type of Amcri- can citizens. A mother cannot ros- sibly give the proper care 10 her children while at work. A mother who can only see her children for a short period early in the morning, perhaps and not always for a short period at noon, and a little time in the evening after returning from work, certainly has little opportuni- ty 10 be a maximum influence in shaping their characters.
 Under ideal economic conditions mothers of young children would not be at work in factories or any where else. Scarcely a mother in New Britain would be at work if her earnings, added to those of her hus- band, could provide the necessary living expenses.
 To be candid throughout, it is worth adding that no man who is unable to support family should marry and possess himself of one If women must work in factories or anywhere else they cannot raise a family at the same time and do it properly. A similar problem, of course, does not involve married women without children.
 We have frequently made mention of the fact that there seem 10 be a large proportion of boys in the city who roam the streets, often far into the night: Many of them have been taken in tow by policemen, one social worker stated to us rccca,ly that he came upon q boy who had been looked after by the police and had been in juvenile court 1T times during the teen age Then he came into contact with a welfare agency which gave him a semblance of the attention he lacked at home and he promptly reformed. No ono knows how many hundreds or thousands of youths of this type who are iI the city-roamers who get into trouble, or who are bad without get ting in trouble, or who are due tc grow up with criminal inclinations due to lack of parental guidance; mostly because their mothers are occupied elsewhere. Like Topsy they just grow"
 Mothers ought to be at home where there certainly plenty tt do in bringing up a family. undc, conditions that arc fair and related to the fablcd American standard 0 living every head of a family should be able to earn enough 10 supper his family without his wife, :h, mother Of perhaps half doze1 children, being forced to "go tC work in order to buttress the fam fly income. If he cannot do thu then there either is somcthin. wrong with industry as at prcsen organized or there is somcthin; wrong with the man. We are in clnod to think that a moral awak cnirg is needed. If captains of in dustry frequently refer 10 th American standard of living ant how it needs protecting there ar many who would be moro impress cd with d standard of cmploymcn all the way down the line that doc not make it necessary for marie, women with families 10 participant in industry. Such q system, W, believe. is not an American stand ard but a foreign standard implant cd in America
 American children, we are crr tain, are entitled to q square deal A mother in factory cannot pos sibly tender such a square deal t her offspring. She should be a home, and tho man should carr enough 70 permit this or not pos sess Il wife and family.
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