In England now, however, the drunken unemployable finds his nearest approach to an occupation in endowing his ill-fated wife with a stream of children, the regular succession of which is only eventually interrupted by the breakdown, age, or premature death of the wife, or by the death of the husband. And the only discouragement extended to such a man is forthcoming from the strictures passed upon him by his slum neighbours. None is forthcoming from the Government, and none from the hospital, which gratuitously delivers the wife of her children. In fact, information as to how she may arrest this devastating succession of children is deliberately withheld from her by nearly all hospitals, because it is felt that the condition of public opinion, upon which the hospitals largely depend for their finances, is averse from her being enlightened in this respect. The organization for relief in this country is now so comprehensive and far-reaching that every necessity can be obtained gratis by those who cannot afford to pay for it. Thus the wife of the poor man is delivered of her children free of charge; the children are educated for nothing; if employment is not available for them at the time of leaving school, they are supplied with doles and relief free of obligation. And when they become senile, they are given old age pensions gratuitously. The funds necessary for the administration of these works are levied from the middle and upper classes, in rates and taxes. Now the Englishman possesses a strong sentiment for institutions. A man who has himself received a certain kind of education, and who has been brought up according to a certain tradition, likes to provide the same education and the same tradition for his children. And if in the face of the increase in taxation, the rise in the cost of living, and the expenses of education, he cannot afford this, sooner than have children to whom he must deny what he considers a good start in life, he prefers to limit his family. This obtains of the man who suffers from a sense of obligation towards his children. The opposite holds good of the unemployed man at the other end of the social scale. He feels that he has sunk as low as is possible for him while still remaining out of prison. Insidiously his ambition and his self-respect become sapped by the soul-killing experience of finding himself a useless parasite upon the community. Frequently, as prison reports show, he takes to crime or drink. And slowly he is overcome by that sense of irresponsibility, of bitterness, of carelessness of the future, of improvident fatalism that takes possession of those living under continuously adverse circumstances.