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Show Alarming Indications That the Home Is Losing Its Hold on Youth I!y WILLIAM J. ELLIS, New Jersey State Official. A recent survey of 10,000 New Jersey children between eleven and Feventeeii years old showed that as the adolescent grows older his fondness fond-ness for home life decreases. These children were asked whv thev liked or disliked their homes ns a place to spend their leisure1 time. It was found (but TO per cent of the eleven year-old girls preferred their homes and (.lint i0 per cent of the hoys of the same ago expressed similar simi-lar opinions. From eleven to seventeen years of age, however, the percentage per-centage decreased 6 per cent fur each year of those who preferred their hollies as n place in which to spend leisure lime. The survey showed that it was not outside interests which primarily drew the youth nway from the home, nor was the reason laid to such superlicial causes ns the type of home or furnishings, but rested ilinot entirely upon the predoniinat ing spirit of the home. Children inclined to slay nway from home ns much ns possible al-n inclined to criticize (heir parents for the hitlers' lack of inlere:t in (In homo, |