Colcord, Joanna C. / 2008-06-24 00:00:00

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_SOCIAL WORK SERIES_
BROKEN HOMES
A STUDY OF FAMILY DESERTION AND
ITS SOCIAL TREATMENT
_By_
JOANNA C. COLCORD
SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY
OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
NEW YORK
RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION
1919


COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
THE RUSSELL SAGE FOUNDATION
WM F. FELL CO PRINTERS
PHILADELPHIA


PREFACE

No less thoughtful a critic of men and manners than Joseph Conrad has
remarked recently that a universal experience "is exactly the sort of
thing which is most difficult to appraise justly in the individual
instance." The saying might have been made the motto of this book, for
in its pages Miss Colcord--with all the eagerness of the newer school of
social workers, bent upon understanding, upon making allowances--seeks
that just appraisal to which Conrad refers. Marital infelicities and
broken homes are not universal, fortunately, but some of the human
weaknesses which lead to them are very nearly so.
To one who brings a long perspective to any theme in social work, Broken
Homes suggests the successive stages through which the art of social
case work has progressed.
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