Delinquent Parents
Should the parents of delinquent children be punished? Canon Davies., preaching;at the Cathedral Church ol St. Paul. Wellington, thought they should he. He had-already referred to the modern swing over to the other extreme of austere • parental,br paternal austerity -of Victorian days, and lie had reminded hip‘ hekrers ‘ol the comments made in the courts to-day of the 'acuteness of the juvenile delinquency-problem. “I-am not fooUIng;” explained the canon, when he suggested that the parents of child delinquents should',-be brought before the cdurts and, if foifiul guilty. l punished by terms of - and 'even', given a- few strokes 1 -with the. birch!
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21112, 4 June 1943, Page 4
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104Delinquent Parents Gisborne Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21112, 4 June 1943, Page 4
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