Show topaz times page 2 december delinquencyY JUVENILE 6 1944 GROWS IN TOPAZ COMMUNITY ANALYST SECTION STUDIES PROBLEM the following tho foli owing is a are there not some advantages to living editors note juvenile delinquency in topaz which can be capitalized upon describing letter parents generally have more community sec- obviously analyst tion to the times Re cantly two small boys acro observed bocim in which high the locker room entering tho school football players had left their fieldi the field clothes while practicing on tho the players found that money was later tho missing from tho the pockets of their garments more recently several boys broke into an elementary school storeroom almont and purs government personal so govern onal property has destroyed troyed or damaged in school abeen dos reas child problems seem morl serious ago in topaz than they were a year agoo topaz say not to sy that is unithis is que in this respect child delinquency is on the increase throughout the nation in most cities and villages much of this problem results from diminishing parental supervision over school age children what with both parents working in defense plants or with mothers servor cab drivers taxi ing as teachers taxicab engaging in other work once strictly reproblems from the served for men OF ln connection with the rise of nile problems at topaz whose is the responsibility one may juveask some parmay be quick to observe that bad ents my physical environment accounts for this condition of affairs barrack living is not conducive to the training of children there is no privacy in the home next door neighbors children have a more powerful influence over children nor can childthan parents themselves ren in the center engage in healthy activities like they can in a normal american there is little constructive work to bo be done the whole 11 life fe here breathes of hence children cannot be expected to show quite the same regard for property and time to spend with their children than they enjoyed before evacuation here the innocent query of toe the child can be given can quate attention wise parents ado adequate make even the barrack room into a home barrack more ething quarters can become something significant than four walls somimport an t in definitely much more important terms of contributing to the childs satisfaction is faction A home even in topaz can be made to provide proper surroundings for health mental lie alth a place where children become socialized and implanted with those ideals which provide a cement not cor the family but for the larger only for no not all the cards are stacked group mo the mal development of against the normal child even in this drab setting even these surroundings can produce normal children providing the parents childs need for emotionsympathetic pathetic companioal security for syn nship and for wise guidance unfortunately not all parents belong to this category according to resident leaders a minority show indifference toward providing effective child training the father is too busy with his own integ ests or the mother with her gossips or other activities tha t claim her attention the childs social needs are neghimin loom lected and questions that to hi or he secures large remain unanswered answers in a very from the gutter delinquency for wholesome often has life that they real sense child or at delinquency would if they were roots a home parental jere living in in of its their 0ownn in a normal american community least in parental indifference in in other words parents are ara often very ing theay theia obligations toward their chilquick to lift the blame for child delin- dren appreciate the i quency from it panion ship panionship place on their n bip own shoulders the environment on bad or on the hesitancy and end com- KM STIERS SUGGESTED as some resident lead school or welfare agencies to that child delinquency is assume and that parents are to on increase the their responsibility for child control then one but is the explanation for juvenile a large extent responsible offenses as simple as that ara parents may ask what remedial steps should be in a position to shift responsibility taken the answer lies in the direction of the japanese family pattern that patof tern emphasizes the responsibility U the individual to the family group that gnp of the finest ccontribupattern is one Ta of japanese ancestry people the tions why not can make to american culture con heritage preserve for 11 pr dserve this social sake of copy the and conyl for americans to the children 01 of if it betrue ors contend |