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Broken Homes
- Author: Colcord Joanna C.
- Genre: Parenting & Families
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill CHANGES OF EMPHASIS IN TREATMENT T TNCONSCIOUSLY and imperceptibly, the point of view about the treatment of desertion has been changing during the past fifteen years. The case worker's attention used to be focussed on the danger of increasing the desertion rate by a policy of too sympathetic care for deserters' families. Little study was made of individual causes, and in so far as there was a general policy of treatment it was to insist, wherever a desertion law existed, that the deserted wife go at once to court and institute proceedings against her husband. He was often not seen by the social worker until he appeared in court. The policy toward the family meantime was to reduce its size by commitment of the children until their mother could support herself unaided; or, if relief was given, to give smaller amounts than to a widow or the wife of a man in hospital. As soon as the man had been placed under court order or had returned home, old records generally show that the social worker's efforts were relaxed, and often the final entry is, "Case closedfamily self-supporting." There were excellent reasons underlying much of the practice. Few laws were at that time in existence or at all adequately enforced, and any man who desired was at liberty, so far as the community was concerned, to walk off and leave his 'family at any time. The multiplicity of sources of relief in the large communities and the absence of anything resembling investigation constituted almost an invitation to men to desert. It did not occur to the charitable public to draw any line between the widow and the deserted wife, or indeed to inquire which of these two a woman was, so long as she was a good mother and "seemed worthy." No wonder that the pioneering social agencies, busy forging tools out of th... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
Taboo and Genetics
- Author: Blanchard Phyllis Mary
- Genre: Parenting & Families
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II SEX IN TERMS OF INTERNAL SECRETIONS Continuity of germplasm; The sex chromosome; The internal secretions and the sex complex; The male and the female type of body; How removal of sex glands affects body type ; Sex determination ; Share of egg and sperm in heredity ; Nature of sexsexual selection of little importance; The four main types of secretory systems; Sex and sex-instincts of rats modified by surgery ; Dual basis for sex ; Opposite- sex basis in every individual; The Free-Martin cattle ; Partial reversal of sex in man. In Chapter I, the " immortality" of the protoplasm in the germ cells of higher animals, as well as in simpler forms without distinct bodies ,was mentioned. In these higher animals this protoplasm is known as germplasm, that in body cells as somatoplasm. All that is really meant by " immortality " in a germplasm is continuity. That is, while an individual may consist of a colony of millions of cells, all of these spring from one cell and it a germ cellthe fertilized ovum. This first divides to form a new group of germ cells, which are within the embryo or new body when it begins to develop, and so on through indefinitegenerations. Thus the germ cells in an individual living to-day are the lineal descendants, by simple division, of the germ cells in his ancestors as many generations, or thousands of generations, ago as we care to imagine. All the complicated body specializations and sex phenomena may be regarded as super-imposed upon or grouped around this succession of germ cells, continuous by simple division. The type of body in each generation depends upon this germplasm, but the germplasm is not supposed to be in any way modified by the body (except, of course, that severe enough accidents might damage it). Thus we resemble our ... --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
No new thing 2
- Author: Norris, W. E. (William Edward), 1847-1925
- Genre: Parenting & Families
Wolff, R.L. 19th cent. fiction
evenings at home or the juvenile budget opened
- Author: john aikin
- Genre: Parent & Adult Child
Edited by Cecil Hartley. This Elibron Classics book is a facsimile reprint of a 1863 edition by Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, London.