Bastardy, see Forced marriages

Behind the Service Flag, Red Cross pamphlet, 160

Bigamy:  and common law marriages, 98;
  immigrant deserters, 99

Bosanquet, Helen, 13

Bowen, Louise de K., 95

Brand, Harvey:  case story of, 122

Brandt, Lilian, 26, 27, 192

Breed, Mary, 61, 150

Buffalo Charity Organization Society:  non-support records, 156

Bureaus:  National Desertion Bureau, 65, 69, 101;
  for consultation, 193-199;
  Court of Domestic Relations, Chicago, 193;
  Department of Public Charities, New York, 193;
  Children’s Bureau, 197;
  importance of educational, 198-199. 
  See also Agencies

Byington, Margaret F., 12

Canada:  extradition treaties sought, 119, 169

Carstens, C.C., 68

Case illustrations:  of apparent desertion, 8;
  mental deficiency, 24;
  reconciliation through education, 30;
  incompatibility and the “other woman,” 40;
  interviewing the man essential, 57-61;
  liberal relief policy, 62;
  agency co-operation, 69, 75, 82, 83, 84;
  accident case, 79;
  traced through letter, 81;
  reconciliation after court marriage, 95;
  “American” marriages, 99;
  justifiable desertion, 111, 112-114;
  antagonism, 111-112;
  prison sentences helpful, 121, 122;
  adequate relief rids wife of chronic deserter, 131;
  adjustment impossible, 134;
  real affection a basis of reconciliation, 135;
  rehabilitation of a deserter, 137;
  wife reluctant to return to man who reformed, 141;
  non-support and ill-kept homes, 153;
  re-establishing non-supporters’ homes, 158, 160, 161-163;
  inadequate court orders, 172, 173

Case work, see Social workers

Causal factors:  analysis of study, 10, 15;
  motives and theories, 17-49;
  rationalization discussed, 17-22;
  summary of statistics, 21-22, 26-27, 45;
  feeble-mindedness, 24-25;
  training and self-control, 25-26;
  nationality, 26-27;
  religion, 27;
  age, 27;
  environment, 27-28;
  wrong basis of marriage, 28;
  common law marriage, 29;
  ignorance, 29;
  incompetence, 31;
  wanderlust, 32;
  inadequate income, 32;
  financial mismanagement, 33;
  physical condition, 34-35;
  temperamental differences, 36;
  sex incompatibility, 37-39;
  vice and disease, 39-43;
  relatives, interference of, 43-44;
  racial studies, 44-45;
  community standards, 45-46;
  recreation, 47;
  companions, influence of, 48;
  shifting responsibility, 48;
  underlying causes, 49;
  seeking a working basis, 91-105

Charitable relief:  desertion in expectation of, 48, 61;
  Mary Breed on, 61;
  immigrant’s interpretation of, 99-100. 
  See also Collusion