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[Distributed to the Council, A. 62. 1927. IV.
the Members of the League and
the Delegates at the Assembly.]
LE1AGUE OF NATIONS
Geneva, September 13th, 1927.
CHILD WELFARE
REPORT OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE TO THE ASSEMBLY.
The Assembly has no doubt examined the report on the third session of the Child Welfare
Committee of the Advisory Commission for the Protection and Welfare of Children and
Young People, and will certainly wish to express its gratitude to the Committee for the
work it is doing and has already done.
In conformity with the recommendation made by the Council of the League of Nations
at its session in June 1926, the Child Welfare Committee endeavoured to make a judicious
choice of the questions to be placed on its agenda, in order to concentrate its attention on
the problems whose study and solution are of practical value to Governments. With this
in view, it formed an Agenda Sub-Committee which has already provisionally settled the
agenda for the next session.
In pursuance of the recommendation made by the Assembly at its seventh ordinary
session, the Committee decided to pursue the enquiry on the effects produced on children
by the cinematograph and to study the position of the illegitimate child in the various coun-
tries. The Council, during its session in June 1927, instructed the Secretary-General to
send to the Governments the questionnaire drawn up by the Committee with a view to obtain-
ing information bearing on these two enquiries. The questionnaire dealing with illegitimate
children was sent on the understanding that the Governments should only give information if
they thought fit. The attention of the Child Welfare Committee is directed to the importance,
from a physiological and mental point of view, of the enquiry undertaken concerning the
cinema.
The Child Welfare Committee has recorded its gratitude for the efforts of the Health
Committee to improve and standardise the statistics of still-births and infant mortality,
and has decided to leave the study of the medical aspects of the question to the Health
Committee, at the same time requesting it to forward to the Child Welfare Committee all
documents dealing with the social aspects of the problems which concern child welfare.
After a detailed study of the very full information collected with regard to the age of
consent and of marriage, the Advisory Commission, sitting as a plenary meeting of its two
Committees, expressed its conviction that the fixing of too early an age as the age of consent
is likely to encourage the traffic in women and children, and to lead to the corruption of
young persons. It requested the Council of the League of Nations to draw the attention
of the Governments to the imperative necessity of taking this factor into account in order
to ensure the effective protection of children and young people. The Commission decided
to postpone to its next session the question of the legal age of marriage, and its possible
relation to the age of consent. The Council requested the Secretary-General to submit to the
various Governments for consideration the Commission's resolution dealing with the age of
consent.
The Committee decided to pursue, jointly with the International Labour Office, the
enquiry into the effects of family allowances on the welfare of children.
The Child Welfare Committee requested the Secretariat to await the results of the
enquiry now being conducted by the International Prison Commission with regard to Juvenile
Courts, and to submit a report at the next session.
The Assembly, at its seventh ordinary session, had recommended that the examination
of the question of mental and physical recreation should be left on the Child Welfare Com-
mittee's programme. In conformity with this recommendation. the Committee appointed
rapporteurs, who will submit a report in the course of the next session on the methods adopted
in the various countries and on the results already obtained. The International Labour
Office has been requested to communicate to the Secretariat the information in its possession
on the utilisation of workers' spare time in its relation to child welfare.
Publications of the League of Nations
IV. SOCIAL
1927. IV. 10.
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