Children of Illegitimate Birth and Measures for Their Protection (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Children of Illegitimate Birth and Measures for Their Protection (Classic Reprint) written by Emma Octavia Lundberg and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Children of Illegitimate Birth and Measures for Their Protection Support is sometimes obtained without court action through the efforts of social agencies or otherwise. However, studies have shown that the father's responsibility for the support of his child is assumed in only a small proportion of the cases coming to the attention of social agencies, and usually only to a limited extent. That so many children born out of wedlock are deprived of support from their fathers has serious implications in regard to chance for survival, health, and opportunities for normal childhood. For three cities the percentages of cases of children under 2 years of age known to social agencies (including maternity homes and hospitals) in which the father had made any contribution to the support of the child, were: Boston, 38 per cent; Milwaukee, 36 per cent; and Philadelphia, 40 per cent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.