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NO PARENTAL AFFECTION.

SIR J. MAD DEN'S INDICTMENT. Speaking tho other day at the annual meeting of the Victorian Neglected Children's Aid Society, the Chief Justice, Sir John Madden, said such pitiful cases as the society v,-a.-5 caring for should nob be found anywhere in a country like this. They had a growing body of rascals whose lack of morality wai inconceivable. There was a great and lamentable body of the. community who brought children into the world without the least vestige of parental regard, and with no desire to giVs them affection—if if were possible for such to possess that emotion—or any help whatever. These people would rather help a favorite .dog than one ef their own children. A large body_ was growing up which was developinj; the grossest indifference to its duty to the community. He ypoke as a Judije, -and it.;was impossible for one to sit day "by" day' in "a "court and watch the march of "battalions of wrong-doers who came, up for punishment, and not deplore that -nothing was being done to jret at the causa of this awful condition. , This evil was extremely and rapidly'growing. Iu 1905 there were in Victoria 4,813 of this class of Children dependent upon either the State or institutions such as theirs. In 1909 there we're .6,007. These figures told a story that required thinking' over by economists, politicians, ,ancl all who thought at all. Iu addition to those children, there were on Ist December, J. 909, no fewer than 6,221 in reformatories. They should not then stop at approving the work done there, but go further into tea larger question. In where wages wcic hi»h and * ample opportunities existed for oncoming citizens' to be good citizens, this state of things should not bs. There must be some remedy.

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Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 2

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NO PARENTAL AFFECTION. Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 2

NO PARENTAL AFFECTION. Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 2