2o6 Heredity and Child Culture 



tune. There is no connection between this class 

 of women and prostitutes, who usually cannot 

 have children if they would. Thus both woman 

 and child should not be punished but protected, 

 and directed to the wisest outcome of their 

 trouble. 



Miss Plows-Day, one of the founders of the 

 National Adoption Society of England, as a re- 

 sult of close personal experience derived from 

 more than twenty years of rescue work among 

 all kinds of fallen women in London, has con- 

 cluded that if the child is taken entirely out of 

 the unfortunate conditions under which it was 

 born by being properly adopted, it has the very 

 best, if not the only chance for future happiness 

 and health of soul, mind and body. She has 

 recognized the inaccuracy of the argument that 

 a girl who keeps her illegitimate child is less 

 apt to fall again than if she was helped back, 

 as far as possible, to her former social and eco- 

 nomic position. The contrary has been her ex- 

 perience. While during the child's earliest 

 years it may appear to help steady the mother 

 to let her keep her child, the strained relations 



