consideration of the man's point of view, less tendency to press court
action, at least in the beginning, fewer commitments of children, a more
liberal relief policy (partly as a preventive of "forced
reconciliations"), and lastly, longer supervision after the man has
resumed support of his family.

FOOTNOTES:

[15] Adapted from the writer's article on "Desertion and Non-Support in
Family Case Work," _The Annals of the Academy of Political and Social
Science_, May, 1918, p. 98.

[16] Breed, Mary: Eleventh New York State Conference, 1910, p. 76.




IV

FINDING THE DESERTING HUSBAND


A few years ago a young Jewish woman reported to the National Desertion
Bureau[17] that her husband had left her and their children.

The couple had never got on well, and the man seemed to have been a
melancholy and impractical fellow. The usual methods of the Bureau
brought no results in finding the missing husband. Then the wife was
more carefully questioned, and urged to tell all that she could
recall or had heard about her husband's early life, his tastes and