Senator’s plea for children
ZN.Z.P.A.-Reuter— Copyright) WASHINGTON, June 20. A United States senator said that the United States should follow the French example in taking care of the illegitimate children of troops who had served in Vietnam. Senator Frank Moss, a Democrat, is introducing a bill today which would provide for the admission of such children to America. “In view of the stigma in Vietnam against illegitimate children of mixed races, such children are as much casualties of the war as is a soldier killed or wounded, or a peasant who has been shot or who has lost his home,” Senator Moss said.
His bill would allow housing and education until the age of 22 if the children were not adopted by American families.
Senator Moss recalled that about 5000 children of Frenchmen who had served in Vietnam were sent to France during the mid-19505.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32639, 22 June 1971, Page 15
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