Show Daily ai Health Service 0 By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN You will find rind many varieties of oi delinquent children They include those thos who are not notable notable notable able t to hold their own in groups of or children those who whore are arc unruly and who refu refuse e to submit to the usual customs of school and community and those emotionally unstable who have lave neurotic tendencies When studies are made it Is found that and girls live in general about the same as other boys joys and girls in the public schools They come from middle class homes and poor poor homes but occasionally from rom homes of the well to On the thc other hand when the occupations of their fathers arc arc considered it t is found that delinquent children come more frequently from fathers who ho are unskilled laborers and why who have lave not themselves approached higher hiher education and the higher professions professions pro pro- fc ions In the main the proportion of delinquent delinquent de de- children from any social social- economic class S is equal to the proportion proper proper- ion tion of that class in the population a a a Although there ma may be a slight tendency for more children from poorer families than from well well-to-do families to become delinquent the eco economic mic amic picture is not the dominant dominant dominant domin domin- ant one in causing delinquency The questions of or heredity and of home hom conditions Ire are most important Broken homes are arc more prevalent among delinquent children than among children generally When the thc home lome is broken up by the thc death 01 or orthe he the desertion of a parent delinquency is s more like likely to occur nine Forty-nine per cent of delinquent girls and 37 per er cent of delinquent boys bos came from homes in which one or both parents were dead In general public school children ar are found in only 17 per cent of cases to o come from homes in which one or both oth parents may be dead Homes broken by separation of oC the parents are also much more prevalent among delinquent children than among public pub lic lie school children generally a 04 ill a Moreover these homes arc are some som sometimes times disturbed in other ways The mothers of 50 per cent of delinquent girls were found to be employed outside outside out out- side their homes and the mothers of 13 43 per cent of or such boys bos were also employed Roomers lived in 19 per percent percent percent cent of homes of delinquent girls and md andin in n 23 per cent of or homes of oC delinquent boys x ys You can see sec from this that the conditions conditions con conditions in the home are of oC greatest significance Delinquent children are on lc less s sympathetic terms with their parents they confide thom in in thorn less they hey receive less ICS information about the fundamental facts facia of sex than do children who are arc in the public schools generally generall When parents can observe the amusements of the child supervise its leisure time and its choice of ot friends take care of the question of or sta staying i out late at night and look after many other interests of ot the child concern concerned cd in the question of or delinquency th they will do much to keep the child from be becoming omin delinquent |