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A WAVE OF ADOPTION IN ENGLAND 9 REMARKABLE NOTE OP THE TIMES. "Adoption was rare in England until lately," says the "Spectator." "The state of the law upon tho subject plainly tiliows that in this country it has not lx>en a common expedient. Nowadays we can hardly run our eyes down the advertisement columns of the 'Times' without coming across an oifer of a child or a demand for one. They are all described as healthy, some as of gentle parentage. Complete surrender is generally a con■dition of adoption, and the words 'No premium' are often added. Considering the number of children whom the death or jnisconduot of their patents leaves to tho ■mercy of the world, and the descriptions -we read in novels of the misery of childless women, it is surprising that such a wave of feeling has not occurred before. . "We suppose the reason lies .in the fact that adoption is a vsry great adventure, and stirring times -were necessary to give men, or rather to give women, heart for the Tisk. - Also until lately children of 'gentle birth' were very hard to come by. The supply of willing rela-

tions was adequate to the demand where orphans were ooncerued, and the doctrine of heredity held us in stricter bondage than it does just now. The arguments against adoption from the point of view • of the adopter are,«of course, very many. 1 The new departure ought to throw a great b deal of light upon the question of heredity. Tho present writer knows at t tho moment of a doctor and his wife who 3 have lately adopted a young child of fine - physique and morally unsatisfactory an- - tecedents. So far as character is ooni cerned, the doctor asserts absolute dis--1 belief in heredity. Environment is, he . declares, everything. Wo shall 6ee. Is - this epidemic 'of adoption come to stay, - -we wonder, or is it a passing effect of a the war—tho .mere outcome of a certain r restlessness, a certain new determination 3 to break with convention? We are in- = clined to think it has come to stay and - to sprend. If so, it will go far to ease, l if not to answer, a good many pressing . problems. It would givo excellent em--3 ployment to a crowd of unemployed peo- - pie of good abilities, and it would relieve 7 {he congestion of those dreary _ places , where children, supported by chanty and f bereft of love, are brought up upon pre--1 . oept without example and without natural experience."

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