co-guardianship

Updated: May 8, 2025

There was the law but also there was justice and common sense. To the everlasting honor of that South Carolina judge, justice and common sense triumphed, and he ruled that the law was unconstitutional. There are other hardships in this law denying to mothers the right of co-guardianship of their children.

Rheta Childe Dorr - What eight million women want

From 1895 bills for the following measures were kept continuously before it: Age of protection for girls to be raised from 10 years; co-guardianship of children; prevention of employment of children under 10 or 12 years old in factories; women on boards of education; opening of the colleges to women.

- The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume VI