FOSTER HOMES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 942, 8 October 1910, Page 11

FOSTER HOMES.

OPINION OF AN EXPERT

According to the report of the/Wellington' district.agent,.under t/he Education .Department's. .'lnfant; Life '..Protection ...system, (Mrs. Dick)'children do" ho't.'.benefit by/life in -ah; institution as compared to life, in,a foster-home;.. The. longer I. .work, among '■' school. 'and; infant-life-proteetion' childreiij, says Mrs; ; Dick;,.the more 'I, admire - the results of hoarding .out, .and;'therefore I grieve to.hear of such institutions;as the Foundling Homes it is ,'pfoposejj to establish, here. and in Auckland.; Snob ' institutions,' are ■ ; surely ..■'.unnecessary- in our.young.ahd.prosperous "New %aland. ; , Uiave done, a,great deal"!of boarding-, out'.lfor the ; .Pepartineht,",aiid ~do; not hesitate Ho : 'say;;.that' I;cpuld, still ..find hundreds of "homes.iin which to. place; children with < good, kindly -, women' who would treat them as their own, and where they would: grow tip among greeii fields'; and in the frep'open' life .of the Country;.. and; not Vih' narrowing' 'institutions'.'.; It is''•; not .helping to;,raise. the. moral'. ; tdne of.; pebpk to .encourage them; ,to,give lip their -natural,responsibilities and allow them :toliand oyer their,..little;.children to (be nameless, friendless .waifs in - a foundling home. Surely■' it; is. far., better to 1 m'ak* parents' support them, and have them' boarded, out in. the' homes 'of the people.;'■;'■,'.; ,'" :<:'.;'- ■.;■'•',/. "';j'X