Normal Family, The. Margaret F. Byington, 12

North of Boston. Robert Frost, 14

One Thousand Homeless Men. Alice W. Solenberger, 157

Overindulgence:  teaching self-control, 25-26;
  wage-earning wives, 154

Pelligrini, Orfeo:  case story of, 99

Permanence of family life, 9, 11-15

Permanent desertions, see Divorce

Philadelphia Court of Domestic Relations, report on reconciliations, 135-136

Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity:  report of, 7

Photographs of deserters:  society presents to wife, 10;
  tracing out-of-town clues, 78, 84, 85

Physical condition:  ill health, 34;
  “difficulty” of pregnant women, 35;
  maladjustments, 38;
  recreation essential, 47;
  recommendations, 196-199

“Pregnancy desertion”:  how explained, 34-35

Preventive treatment:  past opinions, 187;
  non-support leading to desertion, 188-192;
  for first desertions, 192-193;
  bureaus for advice and consultation, 193-199;
  suggestions for, 196-199

Probation:  testimony of social workers, 119-120;
  and imprisonment, 121-124;
  legal separation proceedings during, 128;
  officers effect reconciliation, 132;
  illustrations, 133-134, 137, 141;
  “stay-away” probation, 138;
  economy plan for officers, 178;
  number and efficiency of officers, 182-184;
  consultation bureau, 193

Provisional quality of desertions, 9

Psychoanalysis:  mental deficients, and heredity, 24;
  incompatibility and sex perversion, 37-39. 
  See also Sex factors

Psychology:  rationalization process, 20;
  mental defectives, 24;
  sex incompatibility, 37-39;
  studies on, 39;
  knowledge of, essential, 103

Publicity:  photographs a medium of, 10, 78, 84, 85;
  agencies and newspapers, 84-90;
  divorce by “publication,” 101;
  illustration, 196

Queen’s Poor, The. M. Loane, 154

Questionnaires:  liberal relief policy, 62;
  searching for deserters, 78;
  treatment of desertion, 106

Ratio of desertions:  economic factors, 21, 31, 32-33

Reconciliation:  factors that prompt, 13-14;
  and the “other woman,” 40-41;
  following court marriage, 95-96;
  after prison term, 121-122;
  considerations involved, 125-132;
  unwillingness of wife, illustrated, 131;
  criminal tendencies prevent, 134;
  affection a safe basis of, 135;
  practice of N.Y.  Association for Improving Condition of the Poor, 136-137;
  volunteer visitors helpful, 139-140;
  case worker’s success in effecting, illustrated, 142-148;
  bureaus to promote, 193-199

Recreation:  why essential, 47