ADOPTION AND THE FAMILY
Sts,—I read with much interest the letter from Miss Horn on this subject. I tried twenty years ago to adopt a child, and applied to the National Adoption Society and the Church of England Adoption Society, but was told in both cases-that, being unmarried, I could not do so. I consider this both unfair and illogical, as nearly all children's nurses are unmarried, also the vast majority of schoolmistresses, who have charge of thousands of children from babyhood to maturity. When I applied to the Church Adoption Society I was asked to attend a board meeting, where I was questioned by the board of clergymen and elderly women, rather as though I were a kitchen-maid who had " got into trouble," though I was then middle-aged. I am devoted to children, and most interested in their education and character-training, and could give excellent references. Spinsters are constantly being derided for wasting their affections on dogs, but are not allowed to adopt a child. Surely it is time this foolish rule was abolished.—Yours sincerely,
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