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    Some Conditions of Child Life in England
    Some Conditions of Child Life in England
    Some Conditions of Child Life in England
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    Some Conditions of Child Life in England

    By Benjamin Waugh

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Some Conditions of Child Life in England - Benjamin Waugh

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Some Conditions of Child Life in England, by

      Benjamin Waugh

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      Title: Some Conditions of Child Life in England

      Author: Benjamin Waugh

      Release Date: April 5, 2010 [EBook #31888]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONDITIONS--CHILD LIFE--ENGLAND ***

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      NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF

      CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

      SOME CONDITIONS

      OF

      CHILD LIFE IN ENGLAND.

      BY

      REV. BENJAMIN WAUGH,

      HONORARY DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL SOCIETY

      FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

      Head Office and Shelter:

      7 HARPUR STREET, THEOBALD’S ROAD, LONDON.

      1889.

      THE STEP-CHILD.

      SOME CONDITIONS OF CHILD LIFE IN ENGLAND.

      [A Paper read by Rev. Benjamin Waugh at the Meeting of the Baptist Union, Thursday, October 10, 1889, at Birmingham.]

      My subject is Some Conditions of Child Life in England. And ought we not to expect some of these to be sad? No one who reflects can fail to see the fact that in this country to-day many conditions contribute to make ill-living people; and to make them regard children as nuisances. Vagrant habits; gambling; extravagant self-indulgence; idleness; unmarried parentage, and unfaithfulness in married parents; habitual drunkenness—all these disturb, and some destroy, the natural parental instinct. There is, too, a growing anti-population theory of which we have not heard much, but which is a kind of open secret, which regards that man as a fool who said of children, Blessed is the man that hath his quiver full of them, and the statement of the Prayer Book Marriage Service as to the divine objects of marriage as shameful and degrading. Because the results of all wrong and sinful life in man fall heaviest upon his God and his children, we ought to be prepared to find calamities which follow conditions like these, and to deal with them. They all tend to hurt children, chiefly the youngest.

      Side by side with these conditions there is an increasing tendency to regard human beings as

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