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Show Euild Up The Home The annual crime bill in the United yiates is estimated to cost more than $16,000,000,1100, according accord-ing to an estimate of the Committee Commit-tee on Youth Outside the Home and School made to the White House Conference on Child Healtn and Protection. Only $5,000,000,-000 $5,000,000,-000 are spent for child welfare. Expenditures for welfare touch 50,000,000 young people. The same, agency says, while those on account ac-count of crime touch less than 1,000,000 of the population. "Every "Ev-ery time we 'grow' a criminal he costs us as much as the welfare influence in the lives of 160 normal norm-al boys. One of the contributing causes oi delinquency is the changed economic econ-omic and social conditions which have resulted in a critical loss of creative activities in the home. The Committee found the home "our greatest character influence." Attention At-tention was called to one divorce in every six homes and the havoc caused by desertion and death. The Committee said: "Ever since primitive times, when most of the family's activities and interests centered in the home, there has been a steady seepage of activities 'out of the home.' The educational values of these activities are now lost to our youtn. "Almost everything the modern home uses today is prepared for It. Creative activities are disappearing. disap-pearing. Even the breadwinners themselves have left the home, returning re-turning only at the close of their day's labor. This has meant heavy hea-vy losses of parental association for the children. "The half of our population in flats, apartments, and rnultifam-ily rnultifam-ily houses in cities over 25,000 further fur-ther restricts the chance of children chil-dren in gaining experience of the home. "Further, cities are growing so rapidly that residence areas are constantly being disintegrated by the onsweep of business or waves of new types of neighbors, so thnt the neighborhood as an interacting unity wanes. It is understood such conditions of home and neigh-borhoo neigh-borhoo apathy toward child activities activ-ities that delinquency arises." |
