Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment by Joanna C. Colcord
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deliberately reckon upon transferring the burden of their family's
support to others, or are induced by these considerations to leave.[14] * * * * * In trying to determine the cause for any given desertion it is well to keep in mind from the beginning that there is probably more than one, and that the obvious causes that first appear are almost certain themselves to be the effects of more deeply underlying causes. A young vaudeville actor of Italian parentage married a Jewish girl, a cabaret singer, and took her home to live with his parents. Was his subsequent desertion to be ascribed to difference in nationality and religion, to interference of relatives, to irregular and unsettling occupation, or to a combination of all three? Would all marriages so handicapped turn out as badly? If not, what further factors entered to lower the threshold of resistance to disintegration in this particular case? This last question is after all the most important one of the foregoing series. It is one which the social case worker must never be content to leave unanswered. FOOTNOTES: [6] All names of deserters given throughout the text are pseudonyms. [7] For an excellent discussion of the process of rationalization see The Psychology of Insanity, Bernard Hart, Cambridge University Press, 1914. [8] For a thoughtful discussion of this point see Eubank, E.E.: A Study |
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