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Title: Boyhood and lawlessness. The neglected girl
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: True, Ruth Smiley, 1886- Neglected girl
Subjects: Girls Boys Women Juvenile Delinquency
Publisher: (New York : Survey Associates)
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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on and prematurely sharpenedmind than those with which he has grown intimatewithin the walls of his home. Truly they have a hard life, these West Side tene-ment mothers, and though many fail and many despair,from first to last the majority make a brave fight of it.When one is born to the lowest rung of the ladder andlives among people who seldom aspire beyond, existencebecomes a difficult matter. How can the boys homebe attractive when there is scarcely room to turn roundin it, the family is large, and when year in and year outhis mother is merely a drudge? How can his mother,under such conditions, hope to make the home rival theever-changing lure of the streets? What time andmental energy can she give to her children separately,when she is struggling from morning till night to clotheand feed them? Is the child, produced as he is, somuch her fault? Is he not much more a product of asituation for which her responsibility is small? Home conditions, the tension of constant quarreling, 74
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