Show poverty Is negligible factor in Delin delinquency only one fifth eiith of bad boys come from homes of poor DETROIT you think that the thi boy who gets into trouble come comes from the wrong side of the railroad tracks that hes a boy who hates school A boy who is embittered with hl his parents well youre nearly all wrong A survey completed by william wiman W wattenberg associate prof prot protessor professor esso of educational psychology at wayn wayne university proves it working with material materia 1 collected by the crime prevention bureau 0 of the detroit police department wattenberg has found that more than 80 81 per cent of the boys who get into trouble come from homes with ade adequate incomes like sch school ool and parents what more the tha majority a of thenn them like their parents and have ni no aversion to school in checking a wider group of statistics which included cases which had bad not rot gone into court Witten wattenberg berl found that only 15 per cent of tha the boys boy came from subs substandard buU bun buildings dIngs the largest group of boys boy cami came from average neighborhoods it makes boys in trouble a problem lem iem of the whole city and not slum slun districts alone wattenberg said but despite their attitude toward their parents patents the boys ha had suffered from neglect in on oz third thir of the cases the boy boys s reported tha that their parents were absent during the day and in h belt half alt ait the cases thi the parents were awai away most of the evening this neglect was reflected even mord snore strikingly in the fact that li in barely one twelfth twel of the cases dh did parents regularly take part in aty any of their sons activities come from large larse families the bad boys usually caal came from fairly large families having both brothers and sisters ers arx fewer fowe than one boy in 11 was an only child that broken homes result in juvenile offenders was strikingly rt reef reaf J firmed by the study fathers serve to keep their boy in line una better among the boys boy h la trouble deaths of fathers were reported tice twice as often as deaths a of mothers Watten wattenberg bere bers added religion leaders probably will wm note with satisfaction is faction that boys who atten attend church feua FeVA regularly ariy arly form a minority et at the tar boys gys who get into trouble Ro however wever less than one third of th the tha boys boy reported that they seylam a or wet gai to church ants ja afe kas |