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Show SWEDEN CARES FOR WAYWARD CHILDREN New Law Requires State Be Given Their Custody. Stockholm. Compulsory removal of wayward or depraved children from their homes into public custody, and subsequent supervision up to the age of eighteen, is provided for in a new law for the care of children which ha.--Just been passed by the riksdag. The law further provides for publii care of children who are found to be exposed to undesirable Influence and In danger of becoming depraved. Children removed from their homes by government Inspectors and matrons in compliance with this law are placed in government institutions, or in good private homes in the country, where they receive expert training and can grow up in healthful surroundings. Social service of a similar sort has been carried on in the cities of Sweden, Swed-en, especially Stockholm, for many "yeurs by municipal and state boards, who place the children In desirable homes far out in the country, and pay an nnnuitl compensation to these homes. In many cases a strong bond of affection grows .up between these wulfs of the slums and their foster parents, which culminates tn legal adoption. Under the new law every city and parish will have a special board for the care of children, including local pastors and teachers as permanent members while Inspectors j.ill travel all over the country fur the purpose of observing and controlling individual individ-ual development. Thousands of country coun-try homes receive the poor children of the city as guests during the summer sum-mer and send them back to their homes with cheeks round and rosy. Nation-wide and energetic philanthropic philan-thropic work also is -nrrled on by the Swedish society "Save the Children," the campaign culminating in an annual an-nual Children's day, when large amounts are raised to provide summer sum-mer vacations in children's colonies by the seaside, and in some cases on Islands specially reserved. |