The committee launched a comprehensive study, led by Victoria University lecturer Jim Robb and including members of the Child Welfare Division. The descriptive study was undertaken in order to construct a profile of the unmarried mother.[i] The study concluded the solution was to campaign to reduce premarital sex and the promotion of contraceptives.[ii] By the late 1960s the monthly cost of maintaining a child in a family home was $43.50 compared with $165.38 in institutional care.[iii]
Footnotes
- [i] go to main content Bronwyn Dalley, Family Matters, Wellington, 1998, p. 218.
- [ii] go to main content Dalley, 1998, p. 219.
- [iii] go to main content Dalley, 1998, p. 245.