Excerpt from Illegitimacy Laws of the United States and Certain Foreign CountriesSir: Herewith I transmit the second report issued by the Chil dren's Bureau on the subject of illegitimacy. The first was a trans lation and brief analysis of the Norwegian laws affecting children born out of wedlock.This second report contains the exact text of the illegitimacy legislation of the Unit-cd States, France, Germany, and Switzerland, together with an analysis of the legislation of the United States prepared for the bureau by Ernst Freund, professor of jurisprudence and public law at the University of Chicago Law School. A tabular analysis and a reference index of the illegitimacy laws of the United States are also included in the report.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.