Yearbook (Volume 9) - Softcover
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1918. Excerpt: ... THE MOST EFFECTIVE METHODS OF DEALING WITH CASES OF DESERTION AND NONSUPPORT By William H. Baldwin, Washington, D. C. Family desertion and non-support involves a paradox which makes dealing with the subject difficult, because the punishment which is often so well deserved aggravates the evil which it is intended to cure. The principles upon which successful treatment of it depends have been evolved from experience, and some of them are very plain. It is necessary to begin early and with the help of skillful probation officers. District visitors of charity organization societies can sometimes discover, before cases get into court, tendencies in families which might be corrected by calling prompt attention to the consequences involved; wise care in such instances, anticipating the possible trouble, would often serve as a valuable preventive. Prosecutions to be Av:ided when Possible When complaint is made to the court the circumstances should be investigated by a man or woman of experience, with the object of reconciling the parties and having the husband or parent fulfill his or her obligations without being compelled to do so by the operation of the law. Carelessness, indifference, some temporary attraction outside the home, the beginning of habits of dissipation, lack of employment which might be found with a little assistance, may, any of them, start a man on the course which ends in continued non-support or in desertion; and there is no more effective way of solving such cases than by bringing, if possible, enough influence to bear on the husband or parent to break up such habits before they are confirmed. The family in which it has been necessary to invoke publicly the aid of the court to compel support will ever after be a different family from what it was before. The family lif...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1459009681
- ISBN 13 9781459009684
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages54
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