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3i8 The Century of the Child
etc.; and where parents show themselves hope-
lessly incompetent children can be taken from
them by law. In the different states of Ger-
many there are also laws which allow children
to be taken from parents who, through misuse
of that relationship, injure the child’s spirit-
ual or bodily welfare. Children receive this
so-called compulsory training in cases, too,
where it is necessary to preserve them from
moral destruction. The compulsory training
may be carried out either in a suitable fam-
ily or in institutions; it continues up to the
eighteenth year. A notable provision is that
which places the supervision over such child-
ren, in the hands of women.
An increased extension of the right of so-
ciety in this direction is one of its most im-
portant provisions for self-protection, and is
just as legitimate a limitation of individual
freedom, as the laws to prevent the extension
of contagious diseases. Unfortunately such
regulations are often made ineffective by red
tape. The parents or guardians of the neg-
lected child must be admonished; the unruly
child must be warned, and if this is not suffi-
cient, the law provides that it must be dis-
ciplined. All of these provisos are absolutely
senseless in such cases. By such warnings
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