Summary of article in Billed Bladet #10, 2014.
Written by Marianne Singer.
When Mary visited the Family House in Høje Taastrup and the adults listened to speeches, Mads age three, stepped away from his mother, Stephanie, and walked up to Mary. Looked at her and announced loudly to all present who may have failed to notice: "Ooi, there's a Princess". People bust out laughing, including Mary who said: "I blush/I get all shy".
The Family House has been established in Co-operation between Høje Taastrup municipality and the organisation Mother's Aide (Mødrehjælpen) for which Mary is patron.
Here the mothers can recieve councelling and guidance in among other things in how to begin an education.
The visit lasted an hour and afterwards Mary said: "What has made the biggest impression on me are the young mothers who have come here and been given tools and skills in how to create a life for themselves and their children. They are incredibly glad for the place, get help (*) in getting started on an education and an occupation and also in being able to handle to role as mother.
We had plenty of time to chat and share experiences today".
Mary added that she has never been a member of Mother's Aide group, but instead relied on her friends. (**)
(*) As you can tell Mary has fully adopted the native habit of incomplete and shortened sentences.
(**) Mrs. Muhler and I attended a couple of such meetings when we were pregnant... and it was more of an experience to me than of particular use.
It seemed to me that you could divide the attendees into two groups:
Those who wore lilac diapers around their necks, sitting on the floor drinking herbal-tea and singing Kumbayah. That is when they weren't discussing their feelings. With the emasculated fathers in the background who also discussed their feelings, washing it down with more herbal-tea, wishing it was beer.
And those women who resembled dragons (personality wise) and about whom I found myself wondering how they had managed to find a man even remotely willing to impregnate them.
