he last work of Lydia von Wolfring.[14]
This author, who has made a special study of the judicial protection
of children, makes the following propositions directed against parents
and tutors who commit misdemeanors against children or pupils confided
to them, or who incite the latter to commit misdemeanors, or who show
themselves incapable of protecting them against others who abuse them
in the manner indicated (this last condition applies especially to
concubines, widows, etc.).

(1). Withdrawal of paternal, maternal or tutelary authority and
nomination of another tutor.

(2). Complete withdrawal of children in grave cases.

(3). Nomination of a "co-tutor" in all cases where a husband who
survives his wife and has children who are minors, contracts a second
marriage or lives in concubinage.

(4). Withdrawal of paternal and sometimes maternal authority from all
parents who leave the education of their children to public or private
charity, unless compelled to do so by poverty.

Without having a direct bearing on our subject the above propositions
contain the elements of an efficacious, though indirect, protection
against the abuses committed toward children; for example, when
parents urge their children to prostitution. As regards proposition 4,
I refer to what I have said in Chapter XIII. While authority over
their children is withdrawn, unnatural parents of this kind should be
obliged to work for their children's maintenance.

=Future Possibilities.=--Unfortunately we must admit that the programme
of a sexual pedagogy for the future, such as we have sketched here, is
very far from being realized. The Landerziehungsheime, which should
serve as examples for future state schools are still sparsely
distributed, and it seems impossible to carry out universally a
rational sexual education, till the state and the public are better
informed on the subject and have got rid of their prejudices. This hope
appears to be only the reflection of a distant future. In the meantime
every one must do his best. Parents, and some masters, can do much by
free initiative. It is above all things necessary that young people who
are interested in social reforms should not be satisfied with empty
phrases, nor "play to the gallery." They should set the example in
their own sexual relations, in condemning old customs which are opposed
to true natural human ethics; they should show their adherence to
sexual reforms by action and example, by