WAYWARD GIRLS

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30026, 10 January 1963, Page 2

WAYWARD GIRLS

Alternative To Court Urged (Special Crrpdt. N.ZJP.A.) LONDON. The mystery of where Britain’s “mysteries” come from is—according to “Daily Telegraph” comment—enswCred in a pamphlet on wayward and delinquent girls by Mrs Annelise Walker, a psychiatric social worker. “Mysteries” is the term used to desoriM young girls who arrive on their own in London. They come by train from the north and west or by lorries coming to London docks and markets. If not found by social workers, they become “hostesses” in sleazier dubs, prostitutes, or hangers-on of gangs of young criminate. Mrs Walker suggests such girls' problems might be considered by a panel of experts dealing exclusively with girls in need of care and protection rather than by Courts. “The greet majority of wayward girls who appear before Juvenile Courts do so because of behaviour unacceptable to their parents. But their conduct in question varies widely. “One girl may be expected to be indoors by 10 p.m., and to be a few minutes late might provoke scenes and punishment. “Another girl’s parents might consider up to midnight reasonable. “The eventual outcome has been much the same for girls we have to deal with. They have become increasingly unhappy, distressed and rebellious and some have Anally run away from home,** Mrs Walker says.

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