The letters also reveal someone keenly aware of the struggles faced by modern women when it came to work and family.
In a May 2013 letter to The Age, she wrote: I am a stay-at-home mother of three children and certainly dont think of my role as a burden. I feel fortunate that I am able to look after my children ...
I do feel strongly, however, about the real problem facing many women who have stayed at home the potential for economic inequality later in life, *especially when a marriage breaks down.
Several months later, she wrote to The Australian in *response to the tragic news of a mother who had been jailed after harming her children.
We ask how did this happen in suburbia? The family landscape has changed; many mothers have no help with young children, and with fathers working long hours or suffering from mental illness themselves, the endless task of looking after young children is shouldered alone, she wrote.
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