Responsibility of Parents.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4269, 6 September 1882, Page 2

Responsibility of Parents.

[By Telegbaph.] (fkom oue own cobbespondbnt.) Wellington, This day. In Mr Habens' memo, on Industrial Schools occurs the following :-~The brief statements made by the police authorities when children are committed to the Industrial Schools, show that in by far the greater number of cases the parents are to blame. Of the 294 admissions entered in table, 12 are cases of re-admission from service. Of the 282 cases of commitment, there are 55 not due to the parents' faults, and 51 others in which the returns do not indicate any cause of blame, but in 63 cases both parents are of unsatisfactory character; in 90, one or other of them; and in 23, either one or both. In a table these 282 children are grouped so as to show the circumstances or character of the parents as reported to the Department. The accounts given of the parents of the children not committed by the Magistrates are more satisfactory, 1 of the 47 children was readmitted from service. The remaining 46 canes may be described as follows :— In 30 cases the destitution' appears to be due to misfortune; there are 3in which both parents are certainly to blame, £nd 7 in which one only of them ia at fatfff in 3 cases one of the parents is unfortuimte and the character of the other jsP nofc stated; and as to the retraining 3 there is not sufficient information;., The 46 cases are classified. . ;: 'O