A BABY MARKET FOR PARIS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9991, 30 November 1895, Page 2 (Supplement)

A BABY MARKET FOR PARIS.

A French writer, M. Louis de Gramont, is (according to tlie Westminster Gazette) bettoring tho instruction of Mr. Stead. Ho seriously proposes tho establishment of a baby market 111 Paris. llow many people are there, lie asks, who lament the fact that they have no children in thuir homes, and, on tho other hand, how many peoplo are there who, bavin?' children,'find tho struggle with adversity too difficult) and cannot get food for those children ? Many a dark crime, lie believes, might be prevented if tlioso who have children they cannot keep could tako them to a recognised mart established under State supervision, and then and there sell them. Society, us constituted, 'M. do Gramont points out, assumes that the paternal or maternal instinct is a sufficient guarantee for tho proper bringing- up of the rising generation. In the main, of course, it is, but for all this infanticide is a common crime, while many of the children who escape with their lives aro subjected to the most inhuman treatment because they have the misfortune to liuvo unnatural parent?, who treat them as a nuisance and an encumbrance. Lob them sell their children, and all will bewoll. 11. do Gramont does not appear to consider the case of those | children who might liavo no marketable i value. ■ ' ''' '