This is apparently a mistake. So, it was good of you to raise the issue. Which still creates a puzzle about wardship and why adoption only becomes legal in the US in the mid C19th and in the UK in the early C20th.
This is apparently a mistake. So, it was good of you to raise the issue. Which still creates a puzzle about wardship and why adoption only becomes legal in the US in the mid C19th and in the UK in the early C20th.
I was relying on Jack Goody.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/development-of-the-family-and-marriage-in-europe/B2090AFDBA7748E625497D2328D30525
This is apparently a mistake. So, it was good of you to raise the issue. Which still creates a puzzle about wardship and why adoption only becomes legal in the US in the mid C19th and in the UK in the early C20th.
Found this, which seems relevant. https://vardags.com/family-law/a-brief-history-of-wardship?_its