Economics, Mothercraft and Leakage II

Extract

The social conditions of our times which we have briefly examined in our previous article have seriously impaired the art or craft of motherhood. The principal reason for this has been economic insecurity together with the contributory causes already referred to, the ‘dissipation of life’ and the diminished population of the home.

The economic security of the home and the stability given by the indissoluble marriage bond are ordained to the end of parenthood and especially to that of motherhood, and any deterioration in these two conditions must inevitably tend to destroy the home as the medium of Christian education.

It is of supreme importance, therefore, if the art of motherhood is to be preserved, to safeguard the economic security of the home; and if the leakage from the Catholic Church in England is due in large measure to the failure of the home as a means of Christian education, then the first remedy for such leakage is economic.