Normal Family, The. Margaret F. Byington, 12
North of Boston. Robert Frost, 14
One Thousand Homeless Men. Alice W. Solenberger, 157
Overindulgence: teaching self-control, 25-26;
wage-earning wives, 154
Pelligrini, Orfeo: case story of, 99
Permanence of family life, 9, 11-15
Permanent desertions, see Divorce
Philadelphia Court of Domestic Relations, report on reconciliations, 135-136
Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity: report of, 7
Photographs of deserters: society presents to
wife, 10;
tracing out-of-town clues, 78, 84, 85
Physical condition: ill health, 34;
“difficulty” of pregnant women,
35;
maladjustments, 38;
recreation essential, 47;
recommendations, 196-199
“Pregnancy desertion”: how explained, 34-35
Preventive treatment: past opinions, 187;
non-support leading to desertion, 188-192;
for first desertions, 192-193;
bureaus for advice and consultation, 193-199;
suggestions for, 196-199
Probation: testimony of social workers, 119-120;
and imprisonment, 121-124;
legal separation proceedings during, 128;
officers effect reconciliation, 132;
illustrations, 133-134, 137, 141;
“stay-away” probation, 138;
economy plan for officers, 178;
number and efficiency of officers, 182-184;
consultation bureau, 193
Provisional quality of desertions, 9
Psychoanalysis: mental deficients, and heredity,
24;
incompatibility and sex perversion, 37-39.
See also Sex factors
Psychology: rationalization process, 20;
mental defectives, 24;
sex incompatibility, 37-39;
studies on, 39;
knowledge of, essential, 103
Publicity: photographs a medium of, 10, 78, 84,
85;
agencies and newspapers, 84-90;
divorce by “publication,”
101;
illustration, 196
Queen’s Poor, The. M. Loane, 154
Questionnaires: liberal relief policy, 62;
searching for deserters, 78;
treatment of desertion, 106
Ratio of desertions: economic factors, 21, 31, 32-33
Reconciliation: factors that prompt, 13-14;
and the “other woman,” 40-41;
following court marriage, 95-96;
after prison term, 121-122;
considerations involved, 125-132;
unwillingness of wife, illustrated, 131;
criminal tendencies prevent, 134;
affection a safe basis of, 135;
practice of N.Y. Association for
Improving Condition of the Poor, 136-137;
volunteer visitors helpful, 139-140;
case worker’s success in effecting,
illustrated, 142-148;
bureaus to promote, 193-199
Recreation: why essential, 47