Red Cross Home Service, 81, 159, 160

Relatives:  interference of, 43-44, 49

Religion:  differences in, a study of, 26, 27

Repeated desertions:  frequency of, 8;
  “intermittent husbands,” 43, 153;
  suggestions for tracing the man, 79;
  relative nature of, 92

Responsibility:  self-therapy illustrated, 8;
  deserters disclaim, 19-20;
  essentials of early training, 25-26;
  education promotes, 29, 198;
  and charitable relief, 48, 100;
  wage-earning wives, and non-supporters, 154

Richmond, Mary E.:  on volunteers in case work, 78, 106, 140

Ridicule:  of matrimony, by press and films, 45-46

Russell Sage Foundation, study, American marriage laws, 186

Selective Service Act, 165

Sex factors:  determine forgiveness, 13-14;
  statistical summary, 21-22;
  “pregnancy desertion,” 34-35;
  incompatibility, 37-40;
  immorality, 39, 96;
  knowledge of sex psychology essential, 103

Sex in Relation to Society. Havelock Ellis, 39

Sexual Question, The. A. Forel, 39

Seybert Institution, Philadelphia, on relation of income to court order, 173

Slacker marriages, 97

Social workers:  opinions of, 7-8;
  appreciative faculties of, 11;
  knowledge of sex relations imperative, 37-38;
  diagnoses referred to specialists, 38;
  undervalue recreation, 47;
  questionnaires on treatment, 62, 78, 106;
  detective methods, 68-90;
  agency co-operation, 78-90;
  sex problems, 103;
  necessary information for, summarized, 104-105;
  protection of legal separation, 127;
  successful case records, 142-148

Solenberger, Alice W., 157

Spiritual values:  of family life, 11-12, 29

Standards:  and temperamental differences, 36;
  community concepts, 45-46;
  neighborhood influence, 47, 102

State aid to mothers, 63;
  vital statistics, 93

Temporary desertions:  report of Philadelphia Society, 7-8;
  domestic crises and vagaries, 34-35. 
  See also Reconciliation

Theories to explain desertion, 20. 
  See also Causal factors

Treatment of desertion:  policy, past and present, 50-64;
  court intervention, 50-54;
  interviewing the man, 55-60, 105;
  relief to families, 61;
  opinions of case workers, 62;
  case story, 62;
  state aid, 63;
  closing the case, time for, 63;
  changes in worker’s attitudes, 64;
  whereabouts known, willing to return, 125-148;
  Philadelphia Court of Domestic Relations, study by, 135-136;
  N.Y.  Association for Improving Condition of the Poor, practice of, 136;
  family restoration illustrated, 137;
  volunteers recommended, 139-140;
  wife relents, illustration of reconciliation, 141;
  study of successful worker’s records, 142-148