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Show Young Mother Te!!s About Her $100 Baby THE oft-repeated statement by young married people that they "would have a baby if they could afford it" has been challenged effectively ef-fectively by a young mother who had her baby for 100. How she achieved Jier purpose is told anonymously in the June issue of Cosmopolitan. Starting with the Henry Street (New York City) Settlement Visiting Nurse Service, the young woman progressed to the Department of Family Service, a private institution, where she received re-ceived encouragement as well as actual help in the form of addresses and names of people who would be in a position to give the young mother and her baby shelter. Oddly enough, the chief difficulty to be encountered was the fact that I the baby was legitimate. Plenty of shelter for illegitimate babies was available. However, through the various services, the young woman was enabled, not only to find work to support herself but to find the best possible care for herself and her baby when her confinement came. In her story she gives full credit for this aid and kindliness to the welfare services whose work so often goes unsung and unheralded. |