[151:1] Freud.
[153:1] The illegitimate percentage of total births for the first half
of 1918 was 6 per cent., in 1914 it was 4.24 per cent.
[154:1] See article by Havelock Ellis. _The New Statesman_, May 25th,
1918. Also Prinzing, whom Ellis quotes.
[158:1] In an article which appeared in _Maternity and Child Welfare_,
in 1918, I first brought this question forward: the article was in
answer to a discussion which had previously taken place in that useful
and excellent little journal on the Unmarried Mother and her Child. I
shall use some portion of what I then said in this essay, because I
think my arguments would be weakened if I tried to re-write them.
[161:1] I do not include the father here, because under the English law
the mother is the only parent.
[166:1] See Pamphlet issued by the _National Council for the Unmarried
Mother and her Child_, page 8.
[169:1] These and similar statements are brought forward as reason for
keeping mother and child together. I need scarcely say they leave me
unmoved.
[170:1] See an excellent article on "The Love Child In Germany and
Austria," _English Review_, June, 1912.
[175:1] Article on "The Illegitimate Child," _Maternity and Child
Welfare_, September, 1917. One of the articles I was asked to answer.
[175:2] This is the plan advocated by the National Council for Unmarried
Mothers.
[187:1] Some years ago the city of Leipsic started an admirable scheme
by which illegitimately born children automatically became the wards of
officially appointed guardians.
[188:1] An excellent scheme has been drawn up and issued as a pamphlet
by "The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Children"--Occasional Papers V. _Illegitimate Children_.
_Sixth Essay_