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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: With regard lo the increase or decrease of bastardy generally; In discussing the policy of the 2d and 3d Viet. 85, it was assumed by many members of the House of Commons that the bastardy clauses of 'the Poor Law Amendment Act had failed in their effect, and that the number of illegitimate children had increased instead of diminished. I presume this opinion had been formed on the returns from ten counties, showing the number of illegitimate children registered by-the' clergymen of the different parishes in the three years respectively ending the 31st of December, 1834, and the 31st of December, 1837. The result of these tables is, that the number in the former period is 8,579, and in the latter 9,548; being an increase of 969, or about Hi per cent. It must, however, be considered, that before the Poor Law Amendment Act a much larger proportion were probably what Mr. Laing calls, merely saved from illegitimacy by the tardy marriage of their parents. We used to be told that clergymen in many country parishes hardly ever married, a couple of the labouring classes, of whom the woman was not far advanced in pregnancy. All testimony seems to agree in allowing that these instances of reliance on the compulsory power of the bastardy laws have decreased in number. One clergyman, in making the return above alluded to for the parish of Blackmore, in Essex, remarks this source of error; he says, Previous to 1636 many marriages took place previous to the birth of a child, from intimidation or compulsion, but do not under the new law. Now as the intercourse, and not the birth of the child constitutes the immorality, returns of the birth only before 1834 will give but imperfect data: many more children conceived as bastards, were then born in wedlock. The Poor Law Amendment Act ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458963109
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 18
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458963101
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 54 gr


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