<Ul> <Li> Mothers of illegitimate children should receive much less support; poor - law authorities should no longer attempt to identify the fathers of illegitimate children and recover the costs of child support from them . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Mothers of illegitimate children should receive much less support; poor - law authorities should no longer attempt to identify the fathers of illegitimate children and recover the costs of child support from them . </Li> <Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> It was argued that penalising fathers of illegitimate children reinforced pressures for the parents of children conceived out of wedlock to marry, and generous payments for illegitimate children indemnified the mother against failure to marry . "The effect has been to promote bastardy; to make want of chastity on the woman's part the shortest road to obtaining either a husband or a competent maintenance; and to encourage extortion and perjury". </Dd> </Dl> </Dd> </Dl> <Dd> <Dl> <Dd> It was argued that penalising fathers of illegitimate children reinforced pressures for the parents of children conceived out of wedlock to marry, and generous payments for illegitimate children indemnified the mother against failure to marry . "The effect has been to promote bastardy; to make want of chastity on the woman's part the shortest road to obtaining either a husband or a competent maintenance; and to encourage extortion and perjury". </Dd> </Dl> </Dd>

Where did the poor have to go in 1834