THE UNFIT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10742, 5 September 1913, Page 5

THE UNFIT.

Per Press Association. Auckland, September 8. Sixty-one unfortunate women were assisted by the Door of Hope during the past year, and in the annual report of the Society stress is laid upon the growing danger to the com in unity arising from the lack of sufficient State protection for the morally and mentally weak. “We view with grave concern,’’ states the annual report, “the increase of the number of illegitimate children of feeble-minded mothers, a class that cannot be successfully dealt with in any home or by any known existing methods of treatment While lunatics are taken in charge by the State and placed in asylums, there is no law to safeguard the moral lunatic whose defects and evil characteristics prevent her joining the ranks of ordinary workers. She lives anywhere and anyhow, often in the worst moral atmosphere and always surrounded by all that is wretched and hopeless. Whilst these irresponsible creatures are allowed to roam at large producing that which is only an unspeakable danger to the country and the race, the Government must necessarily take over, feed, educate, provide for and protect the children of the unfit until the age of 21, when they will take their place and assert their power at the ballot box and later on make their influence felt with deadly grip and effect upon the legislative chambers of the Dominion, ”