www.wow.com/wiki/Colonial_American_bastardy_laws
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http://www.workhouses.org.uk/poorlaws/oldpoorlaw.shtml
History enacts itself in tragedy, and repeats itself as farce.
While under common law, bastard children still held the filii nullius label, but they often became "children of the parish" or "children of the borough," as those institutions became the ones responsible for the children’s well being. Further Acts of 1575 and 1609 declared that the mother of any bastard child would face corporal punishment or be placed in an English "House of Correction."
This is very similar to quran.com/24/2, isn't it?
http://www.workhouses.org.uk/poorlaws/oldpoorlaw.shtml
Bastardy
Between 1732 and 1744 a number of changes took place in how the law treated the responsibility for illegitimate children:
In 1732-3, a woman pregnant with a bastard was required to declare the fact and to name the father.
In 1733, the putative father became responsible for maintaining his illegitimate child; failing to do so could result in gaol. The parish would then support the mother and child, until the father agreed to do so, whereupon he would reimburse the parish — although this rarely happened.
In 1743-4, a bastard born to a women convicted of vagrancy was to have the settlement of its mother, regardless of where the child was actually born. The mother was to be publicly whipped.
The 1832 Royal Commission
The Royal Commission, under the chairmanship of the Bishop of London, conducted a detailed survey of the state of poor law administration and prepared a report. This was largely the work of two of the Commissioners, Nassau Senior and Edwin Chadwick. The report took the view that poverty was essentially caused the indigence of individuals rather than economic and social conditions. Thus, the pauper claimed relief regardless of his merits: large families got most, which encouraged improvident marriages; women claimed relief for bastards, which encouraged immorality; labourers had no incentive to work; employers kept wages artificially low as workers subsidized from the poor rate.
History enacts itself in tragedy, and repeats itself as farce.
