Motherhood and the Relationships of the Sexes
CONTENTS OF CHAPTER XII  THE UNMARRIED MOTHER       The law should help unmarried parents to give adequate     protection to their child—Repressive terrors drive men to     desert girls made pregnant through their lust—The penalty for     illegitimate parentage should not be paid by the child—At     present the child does pay—Figures to show this—Illegitimate     infant death-rate—Unmarried mother not able to give     proper care to her child—Some mothers unfit to care for     their children—Different types of unmarried mothers—Four     cases—Where both parents working-class least harm usually     results from birth of a love-child—Enlightened legislation in     Scandinavia—The law in England and in France—Good legislation     in Australia and New Zealand—Other countries—Five proposals for     reforming our law.