Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 318, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1920 — Spiritually and Ethically the Modem Home Has Largely Disintegrated [ARTICLE]

Spiritually and Ethically the Modem Home Has Largely Disintegrated

By A. E. WEBSTER

Juvenile Protective Association/

• The experience of the year 1919 of the Juvenile Protective association has- demonstrated anew that, fnom a spiritual and ethical point of view, modern home has largely disintegrated. This is due to the industrial resolution, which has taken the industrial processes out of the hojpe into the? factories, and which has called not only the fathers but in many instances the mothers and the children themselves out of the home into a manufacturing plant. - - It is due also to the decline of the external authority which has been witnessed in the church, in politics and in the home itself, so that no longer is* there that rigid discipline and authority which used to be noticed in the American family. , It is due also to the Americanization of the child of foreign-born parents, which has created a chasm between the child, with his American training, and his parents, with their European traditions, ideals and background, and which, in many cases, results in the development of contempt on the part of the child toward his/parents. It is too, to poverty and bad housing. It may be due to the economic emancipation of women. T ~