Parents have to do much less for their children today than they used to do, and the home has become much less of a workshop. Clothes can be bought ready made, washing can go to the laundry, food can be bought cooked, cannned or preserved, braead is baked and delivered by the baker, milk arrives on the doorstep, meals can be had at the restaurant, the works' canteen, and the school dining room.
It is unusual now for father to pursue his trade or other employment at home, and his children rarely, if ever, see him at his place of work. Boys are therefore seldom trained to following their father's occupation, and in my towns they have a fairly wide choice of employment and so do girls. The young wage-earner earns a good money, and soon acquires a feeling of economic independence. In textile areas, it has been long customary for mothers to go out to work, but this practice has become so widespride that the working mother is now a not unusual factor in a child's home life, the number of married women in employment having more than doubled in the last 25 years. With mother earning and her older children drawing substantial wages father is seldom the dominant figure that he still was at the beginning of the century. When mother works, economic advantanges accrue, but children lose something of the great value if mother's emploment prevent her from being at home to greet them when they return from school.
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