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Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment

Chapter 24: EDITED BY MARY E. RICHMOND
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The study analyzes family desertion by exploring why men abandon their households, the recurrent and provisional nature of such absences, and the familial and economic influences that sustain or end separations. It reviews changing responses from punitive legislation to individualized social casework, and details investigative techniques for locating deserters and gathering background information. The text outlines step-by-step treatment and preventive measures for families, including home-based interventions, legal actions when necessary, and community resources. Emphasis is placed on understanding motives, flexible approaches, and the practical work of social agencies.


SOCIAL WORK SERIES

EDITED BY MARY E. RICHMOND

Many people have general views in these days upon almost any matter which affects social welfare; we all know how easily such views find expression. On the other hand, only a few have the patience and the insight to gather the specific facts and find out what they mean. Still fewer—having done so much as this—can explain the meaning lucidly and in brief compass.

It is the ambition of the Social Work Series to embody, in the field of social service at least, the message of a representative group of these few. The first three volumes are as follows:

Disasters and the American Red Cross in Disaster Relief. By J. Byron Deacon.

Household Management. By Florence Nesbitt.

Broken Homes. By Joanna C. Colcord.

Price, Cloth, 75 cents each. Other volumes in preparation.

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