Abstract

Concerns about the etiology of juvenile delinquency have always made the home a focal point, especially the bad home background. In the literature, there appear to be three different kinds of homes. And by kinds of home we mean a cluster of endemic factors which characterize that home and by which the one kind of home can be characteristically differentiated from another. The first is the sort of home which is broken, vicious, where there is defective discipline, where the family relationships are defective (i.e., the relationships between the parents themselves and between parents and children) and where there is some personal disorder in the parents. The main characteristic of this kind of home is parental viciousness. The second type of home is not broken or vicious but there is defective discipline. The interparental relations are defective, there is some personal disorder in the parents, and the parentchild relationships are extremely bad. The main characteristic here is parental neglect; physical, emotional, and moral neglect, children left to run wild without supervision. The third

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