This Act eroded ex-nuptial v nuptial distinctions, dispensed with the term illegitimacy, and suggested a focus on the child as a child rather than a member of a larger unit.[i]
Footnotes
[i] go to main content Bronwyn Dalley, Family Matters, Wellington, 1998, p. 250.; McClure, Margaret, ‘A Badge of Poverty or a Symbol of Citizenship? Needs, Rights, and Social Security, 1935-2000’, p. 170, in Bronwyn Dalley and Margaret Tennant, eds., Past Judgement, Dunedin, 2004.; Margaret McClure, A Civilised Community: A History of Social Security in New Zealand 1898–1998, Auckland, 1998, p. 170.