Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sixty per cent of the nation's births are in families on relief, or living on a wage inadequate to provide for a growing family. Because doctors are forbidden by law to give contraceptive advice thousands of families through sheer innocence multiply more rapidly than they should for a mother's health or a breadwinner's wallet. Slum victims in or out of the city need medical advice as much as privileged residential dwellers. But in Boston already seven birth control clinics have been closed, while people of higher incomes can casually make a doctor's appointment behind closed doors...
...women to leave their homes and enter directly into the war effort; but it would seem that such jobs could be filled for some time to come by women without adolescent children. If drafting of such labor becomes necessary, we will most likely have the same consideration for mothers then that we now have for fathers with regard to military service. Until such time, the mother's duty is at home; the father's duty, to make it possible for her to stay there...
...recent months there has been a rapid rise in the number of cases where children are being left to care for themselves while the mother is out working in an avid grab for the big "defense" dollar. (There are an estimated 1,500 in Kansas City alone.) If this practice is allowed to continue, our already overburdened Government will find another real job has fallen to its lot-the operation of nursery schools; a great expense with questionable results...
Missionary E. P. Ashcraft wrote from Chengchow in September: "At the mission a few days ago six children were tied to a tree by their parents so they would not follow them as they went in search of food. One mother with a baby and two older children, tired from the long search for food, sat down to rest under the tree. She sent the two older children to the village ahead to beg a little food. When they returned the mother had died of starvation and the baby was still trying to nurse at her breast. These are just...
Died. Cosmo Hamilton, 70, writer-brother of Writers A. Hamilton Gibbs and Sir Philip Gibbs (he took his mother's maiden name when he began to write); of pneumonia; at Shanley Green, England. A tireless jack-of-all-writing, he averaged a novel a year most of his adult life...