Abstract
THE most effective way in which society can protect children is in providing their parents with sufficient income so that they can be brought up properly. It is folly to expect wageearners with unduly low incomes to feed, clothe and rear their children in any adequate fashion. Even the necessary knowledge of child hygiene is a costly affair which is beyond the reach of the mothers of the poor. Give a family of average intelligence sufficient money and it will not only be able to take care of its children but it will gradually learn to do so. It is the most cruel form of unconscious hypocrisy for business men to pay insufficient wages to those of their employes who are fathers of families and then by contributing to child welfare agencies to feel that they have discharged their duty. The child-caring agencies, for all their efforts, cannot remove more than a small fraction of the
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