Identifier: boyhoodlawlessne00true (find matches)
Title: Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: True, Ruth Smiley, 1886- Neglected girl
Subjects: Girls Boys Women Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher: (New York : Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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cannot get bygambling or stealing. Often her force is spent. Sheis weak, querulous, discouraged. To expect her tostem the tide of outside forces which are molding theboy into the nerveless or vicious man his father wasbefore him is to ask the utterly impossible. Perhapsshe will close her eyes, like Mrs. Gates, whose only sonhas joined a gang of sneak thieves but who maintainsthat Jimmy is a good boy and never was no troubleto me. In her heart she knows there is somethingamiss, but she turns a deaf ear to any hint of wrong-doing. Sometimes the mother admits everything,enlarging and complaining, but at the end sits weaklyback. What can I do? What th bys does outsidethey dont bes aifter tellin inside, an I cant be keepintracks on thim all th toime. In the judgment of such mothers a boys good naturemakes up for serious dereliction. A fellow who isthoroughly in wid de push, according to her is*just wild Hke, not bad. Hes thot obliging and doesonything I ask about the house. Many a slip is
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