THE STATE AS A PARENT.
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) CHRISTCHUE.CH, this day. A largely attended public meeting held last night to consider the question of the destitute and neglected children of the State, adopted the following motions: "This meeting affirms the following principles that the State, standing in. the place of parents to such neglected and destitute children as are (1) directly under its charge, (2) boarded out or supported by local bodies, (3) placed in charge of religious bodies, should provide, by virtue of such responsibility, and in view of the disabilities imposed on such children, the best possible training and education; that the boarding out system at present in vogue is not in accord with the principles affirmed in the resolution, -and is therefore condemned by this meeting, whatever may have been its utility as a makeshift in the past; that this meeting earnestly recommends to the serious consideration of Ministers and the Government the cottage home system, as providing all the conditions lacking under the present system of boarding out children.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 43, 19 February 1908, Page 7
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