human
My dear young person, we could have half the orphan children in London on your terms. Before we accept such a child as yours we expect the parent to give us a legal undertaking that she relinquishes all rights in it until it is sixteen years of age.
gpt
Sixteen? Isn't that rather severe on a mother?
human
Justly severe, said the matron.
gpt
Such women should be made to maintain their children, and thus realise that the way of transgressors is hard.