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THE PROBLEM OF ILLEGITIMACY."

THE NEW BILL

the Observer:

PARLIAMENT.

thai be will have difficulty, in f— MR. ASQUITH'S DRIVE TO avading his share of the respon-} sibility may fairly be expected to hava soms affect upon the father, perhaps as least as much sa thời knowledge that her child will have some claim to a father's support

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the mother.

"MOTHER AND CHILD,

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A very cordial welcome was

Mrs. H.A. L. Fisher (Chairman of the National Connnil for the may be expected to increase the given to Mr. Asquith on March} Mother and Her Child) writes in quite apart from this kind of sembled at various points of his reasoning, which is not really journey between his home in From the early Factory Acts convincing either way, we can Cavendish square and the House

Ipoint to the experianca of up to the last Education Act we countries which have adoptad

of Commons. can trace the steadily increasing legislation along the lines we pro-Parliament-square and the im- There was a dense crowd in care of the State for its child pose, and that experience has mediste vicinity of the Houses of population. More and more do been the opposite of ours. In Parliament wo realise that the child is the stead of a steady increase in the key to the future, and that labour percentage of illegitimate births, Palace Yard shortly before the Mr. Lloyd George drove into and money expended on its bahalf they have witnessed a steady meeting of the House and was are infinitely more likely to bring decrease. about the desired results than

cheered by those who were near double or treble the

his carriage and recognised bim' amount bestowed upon adults. But there

through the closed doors. Mr. Moreover, most of those who Bonar Law, too, came in for a is one pathetic section of our work among girls of the type share of the welcome as he walk- ebild population which benefits who became unmarried mathers ed across Palace Yard into the but little from infant welfare feel strongly the urgent need of House. work, and is only too often ire enabling the mother and ber

When Mr. Asquith started trievably damaged. mentally, child to remain together. There from his home in Cavendish- morally, and physically, before itare, ai course, cases where in the square, a great crowd of students, attains to senool age and comes interests of the child this is hatless for the most part, had under the care of the educational impossible (and the Bill provides assembled outside and startled authorities. Normal children have for the guardianship of the child the sedate neighbourhood with fathers as well as mothers; the in such cases) But over and slogans like~* illegitimate child must be, in the over again it is found that the greater number of cases, main one chance of restoring, the noise.

We are the boys who make the tained as well as cared for by its mother to self-respecting citizen- mother. Our system of dealing ship, of learning control, is to

Oo! ah! Oo! An When the doors were finally with this question has been.

give to be overemationalised; ilang open by two green-uniform. based upon the principle of

leaving the unmarried mother/andisciplined nature the appealed footmen the students raised a

to bear the whole burden of

good fastermothers are almost

and satisfaction of caring for be resonant roar and swarmed round own child. If she has to leave it a car which, however, proved not her child, with such help as the to a fostermother and nowadays to be Mr. Asquith's vehicle. Aliation Acts permit. Except by those who are actually work- ing for these rothers and child ren in one way or another it is no: realised either that the

obtaining of an affiliation order

non-existent this natural and and safe relationship is denied to her, and further troubles all too often ensue,

Obvious the Bill is only one

Another and bigger car shortly ferce struggle: again the police drove up. Again there was 3 were inadequate to deal with it, and only a student; mounting to the roof, was able partially to

is hedged with difficulties or that small-bit-of-the work that must clear way for the vehicle. when one is obtained the weekly be done if this sad and old problem It was now possible for Mr. sum payable by the father is limited to 10s, and until recently to approach any solubon We Asquith to approach his car. Mrs. it was only 3, an amount whirhust try to think out the con- Asquith paused on the steps to may bear little or no relationstructive preventive work that is wave a hunch of white heather either to the means of the father

or the needs of the child.

orele deeded if the annual to the crowd. 37,000 or more illegitimate births Lady Bonham-Carter led the are to be replaced be legitimate way and the member for Paialey There has come to be a general births. We must do all we can to brought up the rear. agreement among those familiar make our young people realise He raised his hat-and im- with this difficult and trying the high responsibilities of parent medistely a shower of confatti blem that the deterrent principle hood, we must do far more to became mixed with his white has not been successful and that insist upon the desirability and the hair. He was patted

on the

Through it all he smiled in-

in the interests of the child it is possibility of the singla moral shoulder and thumped on the essential to increase the respon-standard of purity. Then, again, back, one band even stroked his sibility of the lather. Aathings are there is much to be done and locks. the number of illegitimate births most of it can be done easily--to has remained approximately provide our young people with dulgently-probably none there constant for the last ten years healthy and natural recreations-was better qualified to realise the About 37,000 illegitimate babes We want a very great deal more absence of political significance are born yearly in England and good music, more good dancing. from the hilarious methods of Wales, though in1918 there was an acting, games, all bealthy safety- these youngsters. increase toove:41,900. Meantime.

valves for the emotions. And we as everyone knows, the number

want, too, more and better educa-Eventually a policeman picked They clung to his car like flies. them from the roof and standing use of leisure.

of legitimate births has steadily tion as a preparation for the right decreased, so that the illegitimates have formed an increasing pro- portion of the whole. I can therefore scarcely be argued

has succeeded in illegitimacy.

TWICE THE NORMAL DEATH- RATE.

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JUFFORT THE BILL.

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there, throughout the drive to the Commons this officer was in dustriously smacking at clinging hands with his truncheon.

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Meanwhile here are the annual that the deterrent principle thousands of babies, ignocent When the car reached Down- preventing themselves, but doomed, because ing-street the crowds lining the of the wrong doing of their parents parements were six or seven in a terribly large number of deep, and surged forward into cases, to sufferings and miseries the middle of the road, where What is the fate of these babes? Which do not bear thinking about they surrounded the vehicle. I: scarcely bears investigation. Every now and then we are moved bringing it to a standstill for a Their infantila death-rate is a/to pity or horror besoras lurid) moment or two, least twice that of the legitimate some account of a despairing girl the House Mr. Asquith had a revelations of baby-farming. by

To the immediate vicinity of all too high as that still is, and who abandons or even destrogs fine reception from a great crowd there is grave reason to fear that her helpless child. If we did but that lined the pavement if all the facts were known the realise the conditions of which figures would rereal sa... exen

Parliament-square. are these, tragedies higher mortality. If one in every occasionally visible symptom, we He had lost his bat on

Mr. Asquith was bare-headed

the 5te of these hapless bebas could not rest till we be done parishes before it is a year old

journey. but he bowed in something towards a "solution.acknowledgment of the greetings, tbe remaining four will necessarily bave

At this moment, we can try to When Mr. Asquith arrived a undergone great risks, and a proportion of support Mr. Chamberlain's Bill. the House the car in which he those of them who survive will Council for the better care of the inner courtyard and an inspec

which is approved by the National was riding was drawn up in the in all probability bare incurred

It was estimated irretrievable harm. Itcannot be unmarried mother and her child. made. too often repeated that a high the .C.P.C.C. and the Salvation that nearly £100 worth of damage

Army. We can infant death

urge local had been done. for there was a rate inevitably means a high damage rate. Nolathorities to use the powers they smashed hood, two broken lamps, now possess and provide hostels a wrecked windscreen and very modern community can afford to in which motber and bate can live distinct dislocation of the allow its fatore citizens to grow together, and from which in due mudguards. up, enfesblad injured likely to

be a permanent burden upon the work, returning to her child a: resources of the community-night and assured of its well. What, then, can n: Zone?

GENERAL NEWS.

The Bill which is to be intro. being in ber absence. The im-! duced by Mr. Neville Chamber shelter is not the least of the pus ibility of finding any sort of lain early in May, and which is gonies the unmarried mother IOS WITH OVER-SEAS CLUB. supported by all the main bodies

undergoes. And, above all wel The Councils of the Royal Col concerned with this problem, is can work for better standards. onial Institute and the Over-Seas based upon the principle of in-and meanwhile do what in us lies Club and Patriotic League of creasing and recognising the to help these hapless babes who Britons approved in principle, a responsibility of the father, and will also if they live-many will scheme of amalgamation. Details failing him of the State for the not-be citizens of our common are being worked out and, if. fine maintenance of the children. state, and who, as things are, areally agreed to by the respective filegitmate children are to be wards of Court, and the duty of far more likely to be bardens Councils, the scheme will be getting into touch with the upon it than to be the kind of submitted for approval at general men and women that we should meetings of the members of both father is placed upon Dwish to have as the fellowcitizens societies. official of the Court (the collect-of our own children. ing officer under the Afiliation Orders Act). The 10s, limit is tol be abolished, and the sum pay- able is to be arranged in accord-

ance with the means of both par-| eats and the real needs of the child

THE QUESTION OF RESPON- SIBILITY.

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