Education: Family in Wartime

Last week educators, sociologists and physicians met in Chicago and learnedly discussed The Family in Wartime. The delegates were not prepared to bet a plugged nickel on the family's immediate prospects. Already, declared Professor Willard Waller of Columbia University, although the U. S. was not at war, the national-defense program had begun to raise hell with U. S. families. He ticked off wartime dangers: > Disruption of relations between parents and children.

> Increased prostitution.

> Increased delinquency.

> Spread of venereal disease.

> Undermining of the morals of young men who leave home to...

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