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v THE liAWS RELATING TO THEM. 57
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c guardianshi onfided to a over curat the or , who children pr jointl , of w the ith first the mo marriage ther e . xercises The
p from guardians the h father ip may i , f however found unworth , be withdrawn to exercise from the it mother in virt , or e o v f a y
judgment given , against them . In the Valais the , mother is not guardian ives her b y law , and dians if hi the th father e choi b y mus will , t or be on confirmed his death b -bed the , y
_ehambre g illaire g . p , pup meres on [ thi Madlle , s which point _, Koyer we presents do g not ives many reproduce an accoun varieties . t The o , f but th leg e is on la la w the t ion rela whol of tin S e g it the to filles law land s -
• agains appear t m to orali be ty more than favourable to lawful wives to women and moth who ers have . In transgressed particular it is worthy of notice that while the children of the married woman whose
• children m are an by cases law are th x illeg clusivel e fa itimate ther y under obli is in ged the law to father contr their ' s ibute sole control to guardian , their the mother maintenance , though in .
y Similar grave question arrangements whether are such in a force state in of Eng things land should , and be it allowed becomes to
continue . It cannot but be dangerous to the interests of morality to place those who obey the moral law at a disadvantage as regards the
the law of the state . At this moment a wife is , in the eyes of cious law , no an t d unreas y subject onab to le the in ever control individua of her husb l ac and tbut , ho he wever can capri d - spen
or give away all her personal , possessions y , lay ha , nds on her earnings—unless he prefers the alternative , which the law allows him ,
_, to sonal of her deserting violence worst her enemy . — It deprive , is and true in her th fact at of go all her all these children leng enormities ths , and except give are th them at not of often over percheck
hands committed on the extreme of . the The evill rigour humane y-disposed of the spirit , marriage powers of modern which code society , a which good acts man places as would a in the be to
- ashamed exercise . , and But a wh man y g with ive to any a worthless character man to lose privileges , would be which afraid none , other cares to makof ? Wives of the poorer classesand even
of from the the upper irresponsible and middle e use classes iven in b exceptional the law to cases husbands , suffer , on severel whom y
rogatives the opinion which of civilized onl power society used g imposes bbad y no men restraint for bad . purposes To confer is pre _^ at
are y y once tinue a to foll be y perpetrated and a wrong by , which English it leg may islators be hoped . — will . ] not long con-
V The Liaws Relating To Them. 57
v THE liAWS _RELATING TO THEM . 57
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 2, 1863, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02031863/page/57/
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