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Kōrero: 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.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, A. C. Gifford Collection

Reference: 1/2-060438; G

by Algernon Charles Gifford

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Matt Morris, Unpaid domestic work – Housework and caregiving, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/23317/looking-after-younger-siblings (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Matt Morris, i tāngia i te 4 March 2010.