CHILD ADOPTION.
[To TN& Earroa OFT= " SPECTITOR."]
Sta,—May we draw the attention of the public to the fact that the Report of the Committee on Child Adoption has been pub- lished, and copies can be had at H.M. Stationery Office, Imperial House, Kingsway, or through any bookseller, price 2d. The Report, which is unanimous, recommends legislation to safe-
guard children who at the present time are in infancy and childhood being distributed, as it were, at the good pleasure of persons quite unconnected with their natural parents or relatives. We would urge that this export of children should be stopped until adoptions " can be inquired into and sanc- tioned by some responsible, judicial, or other public authority," and proper records of all such transactions kept. A society in New York calling itself " A British-American Adoption Society " wishes to have little " orphan babies " to adopt, and co-operate with the National Adoption Society, whose office is at No. 1 Baker Street, London. Now, the work of this society is mainly, if not entirely, dealing with illegitimate children, and it would be interesting to know how many orphans sent out in the Aquitania ' are children who have lost their parents by death, and how many are children whose parents are living, but anxious to lose them. There is also a movement on foot for sending British-bora children to Holland. Quite apart from other considerations, has England come to such a pass that she is either unable or unwilling to provide for her own children within the Empire?—We are, Sir, &c.,
EDITH WETHERED
ARTHUR J. S. lannisos (Hon. Secretaries).
The Associated Societies for the Care and Maintenance of Infants, Victoria House, 117 Victoria Street, S.W. 1.
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