and his grown step-children.


2. Racial Attitude toward Marriage.--The racial factor is important in
desertion. Not only the individual's own background, but the attitude of
the people whence he sprang toward the sanctity of marriage, toward the
position of women, and toward the importance of restraint in sexual
relations, will have an effect upon the desertion rate of a given racial
group. A study was recently made of 480 deserters known to the New York
Charity Organization Society in 1916-17 whose nationality was given. The
results in percentage form are given for what they may be worth,
compared with the same percentage in 2,987 families of known
nationalities which were under care for all causes during the same year.

NATIONALITY OR RACE

| |Per cent
|Per cent |among 2,987
Race or place of birth |among 480 |families under
|deserters |care for all
| |causes
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United States--white | 30.6 | 29.7
United States--colored | 11.2 | 5.6
Irish | 9.7 | 14.7
Other British | 5.0 | 4.7
German | 6.2 | 6.2
Italian | 20.2 | 28.0
Austrian | 5.5 | 4.8
Russian | 2.8 | 1.0