JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
Sir,—Although I am a part-time working mother, I do not consider my child a potential delinquent. Look around the streets, especially in the evenings, and see the number of teenagers without proper adult company. There you will find your juvenile delinquent of the future. They who offend should have their parents alongside in Court for punishment, too. The parents should have brains enough to know right from wrong. The children can be led by older ones into trouble because they have not enough sense and experience to realise just what they are doing. On Saturday afternoons, too, the children are allowed to fill the theatres. How do we know what they are doing or how they are behaving unless we are with them? Children supervised and taken out with parents till able to judge right frorm wrong for themselves should not be delinquents. No parent should be blamed for neglecting them.—Yours, etc., WORKING MOTHER. August 12, 1954.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19540813.2.14.6
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume XC, Issue 27427, 13 August 1954, Page 3
Word Count
159JUVENILE DELINQUENCY Press, Volume XC, Issue 27427, 13 August 1954, Page 3
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in