MANY SAD CASES

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 18

MANY SAD CASES

HOME LIFE TO BLAME

The Society for the Protection of Women and Children met recently, Mrs. B. L. Dallard, president, being in the chair.

Several cases of adolescents came before the committee, the parents apparently having little or no control over them. It was stated that a sympathetic consideration and co-operation was most necessary with these young people who found it hard to battle against physical and nervous strain in their emergence into maturity. Wise guidance could do much to prevent friction and rebellion becoming the ruling factors at a critical and difficult stage of development.

It was also stated that a great many cases of excessive drinking with consequent unhappiness and misery in the home were evident, generally leading to separation and the withholding of the stability of a home from the unfortunate children concerned. The committee considered that this was a cause for grave concern, where the fitness of the people was of the utmost importance from a national point of view. One whole family of children had to be committed to the care of the State owing to neglect and the failure of their parents to adequately maintain them. The home atmosphere in this case was inimical to their physical and moral welfare.

The society expressed gratitude to many kind donors of clothing, among their being Mrs. F. T. Clarke, the Stocking Club. and Dannevirke friends. During the month 87 visits were received and 56 were paid, and corespondence included 49 letters received and 121 issued. Miss L. G. Davison (assistant secretary) carried on very saisfactorily in the absence of the secretary on holiday.