The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1936-01-03

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home? 1t has been the belief Of
centuries that the home is a fairly
important influence in an individ.
ual's life, and keeping home is 8
full time job. Of course, a woman
can hire help, but so many say that
no one can take the interest in 9
child that his own mother does. Also
how rare are the persons who are
equipped to foster a child's intel
lectual and cultural development as
parent who isn't away all day ano
tired in the evening!
1 know a few strong women who
have resisted the charms of a few
extra dollars in the belief that theil
children are benefited more by then
personal care than by expensive
clothes or other such good but not
all-important things. Women are
beginning to feel that after all there
is some credit in having successfully
brought up family and kept 9
home.
One feature about parents nat
ufal desire to do all possible in Q
material way for children is the
tendency to prolonged dependence
of children on parents, not only
financially but in more important
aspects of character.
1t is the many women working
with less important reasons than
those who need positions worse who
should give way, and there is moth
ing to prevent them from seeking
careers in some other field such as
writing, art or social work where
success does not displace another
person who needed the job.
A READER.
Answer-The woman who SUCCESS
fully brought UP a family and kept
q home has done a praiseworthy
thing and is the equal in every way
of the so-called career woman.
doubt If such woman ever has or
ever could be pried loose from her
honored occupation by anything
short of dire necessity.
The fact that woman chooses
to devote her entire time to home
and children does not necessarily
mean that she is better fitted to
do that than anything else.
No one can gum up the lives of
40 ~
some mothers. The over devoted
mother with nothing to do but pro-
tect her children probably has done
more to prolong their emotional de-
pendence. than the working mother
whose enforced neglect forces them
to shift for themselves.
/ consider any job, paid or un-
paid, which lessons the intensity
of a mothers concentration on her
children, to be a blessing.
The future of the mother without
a job, or at least an absorbing in
terest outside her home, is more
precerious than that of the indie
pendent woman. After a certain
age the dependent mother becomes
financial burden on her children.
Even If she has her own money but
no other interests than interfering
in the lives of her children, she is q
nuisance. Unless she has built all
her life against the day when she is
no longer necessary to children, her
welfare Is at stake.
Women who have left their
homes from choice rather than
necessity may not have done so for
pin money, as you suspect, but
from an actual lick of interest in
the details of rome making and
child rearing.
A woman's urge to express her
self in other fields is not so super
fetal. To force her to retire from
work which she likes to take up
work which she does not like could
not possibly henehS the home. The
aggression which she worked off in
handling G job is apt to be turned
into an unweicome managerial at
titude toward her husband and
children. Your suggestion that she
give up her lob 10 one that reecs
the money more might result in
worse evils than the ones you
mention.