68 MORAL CONDITION OF THE CHILD 



irresponsibility is recognized. If the infant has 

 not a rational spirit, the parent must discharge 

 the functions of the spiritual life for the child. 

 If the child of six years has not come to moral re- 

 sponsibility, the parent must assume before God 

 and the community that responsibility for the 

 child, and so on up in diminishing measure until 

 the youth has come to the place in life where he 

 may bear his moral burdens on his own shoulders. 



