CHILDREN AND RELIGION

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 101, 26 October 1925, Page 7

CHILDREN AND RELIGION

In Soviet law no difference is made between legitimate and illegitimate chil-. dren. Dealing with the unmarried mother -and her child, the report says: "In those rare cases where a woman having had relations with several men the father cannot be indicated, then all the men are made jointly responsible for the support of tho child, and according to h, new clause the individual amongst them . who is considered best able to support and bring up the child is to be recognised as the legal father of.it."

On the attitude of the Soviet to re-j ligion, the following remarks are. made: —"Although . the • Soviet Government is frankly against the fostering of reli- . gious beliefs in the population, it nevertheless gives the right to every individual to follow.the .dictates of his own conscience, trusting to the spread of education to dispel the religious beliefs of the people. According to a ncuclnuse in tho code of laws on the family, all children are to be regarded as belonging to no religion until they themselves have readied the age of discretion and can choose themselves which church, if any, they care to join." ;

.85, Fleet street