Note 2 — Chapter I · MARRIAGE AND PARENTAL AUTHORITY

Boards of Guardianship.—This term is not used in the sense in which in England we speak of Boards of Guardians, to denote the ad hoc local authorities which administer the English Poor Law, but to denote local committees which, in the continental system of child-protection, administer the functions for which the State is responsible in its capacity of “Over-Parent” (an expressive and convenient term we owe to Mr. H. G. Wells). Dr. Engel suggests Court of Orphans or Court of Wards as alternate English terms.—Translator’s Note.