(1) Man earns $20 a week but refuses to start housekeeping again,
although they are seriously overcrowded--seven adults and five
children in five rooms.

(2) Woman says he makes her sleep on chairs so that he can get
better rest.

(3) He is seeing a good deal of another woman, a friend of the wife
(wife's statement only).

(4) Woman had applied for nursery care for both children so that she
might go to work.

(5) It transpires that she lived with him before marriage, and that
the first child was a month old when the marriage took place. He
"holds it over her."

(6) Man had been married before and divorced.

(7) The family's habits of recreation are changed; the man no longer
"takes her out."

Such attempts to foretell the future are not infallible, of course; but
a listing process is a valuable aid to diagnosis, and, by its help, a
situation may be uncovered which tends toward complete family breakdown.
This may be taken in time and prevented; or, if separation is inevitable
it can be prepared for in advance, the necessary legal arrangements can
be made to protect the family, and the anxiety, suspense, and useless
effort avoided which a sudden and downright abandonment would cause.