ABSTRACT
The following passage shews that exl?erience is. furnishing an answer to one of the objectiOns which was most feared in regard to boarding out-'' I havebeen asked what answer can be given to Mr. Fawcett's argument against boarding out :-that it must be discouraging to the labouring classes to see the children of paupers, thriftless or deserting parents, boarded out at more cost and under better conditions than they can provide for their own children by their work; and that it must tend both to create jealousy and indispose them to make provision for their own familiesThe answer is that the labouring classes know better than ladies and gentlemen how the Guardians' allowance is spent by their neighbours, and they ~o not always see it expended upon the children. They do not trust boarding out as a system. They regard it on the whole as a means of gain to foster-parents. '!'he children are a species of lodgers. I find jealousy in. abundance, but it is not jealousy of the children but of the foster-parents who have been lucky enough to obtain the children's payments."
