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Story: Unpaid domestic work

Looking after younger siblings

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Looking after younger siblings

Older children often act as minders for their younger siblings. Here Edward Gifford helps his brother Frank (left) and sister Doreen (right) with their painting, around 1900. The photograph was taken by their father, Algernon Charles Gifford.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, A. C. Gifford Collection

Reference: 1/2-060438; G

by Algernon Charles Gifford

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Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Housework and caregiving, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23317/looking-after-younger-siblings (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Matt Morris, published 4 March 2010.