Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thompson, in a third experiment, applied the table to 50 girls, committed to the Division of Youth Service of the Massachusetts Department of Education between November, 1954, and May, 1955. This was only the second application of the test to girl delinquents. The first had been done by the Jewish Board of Guardians, in 1953, on 150 unmarried mothers, whereby it was found that 81 per cent of the women would have been correctly identified...
...result of the application by Thompson to girl delinquents is unusual since all of the 50 girls would have been identified as potential offenders. Mrs. Glueck offers the explanation that the social pathology in the background of delinquent girls is far worse than in the background of boys. "Girl offenders are not brought to court unless they are really, seriously delinquent," she said...
This was clearly reflected in the categorization of this group of girl offenders on the five social factors that comprise the prediction table. Laxity of discipline by father, for example, was found in 75.6 per cent of the girls as contrasted with only 26.6 per cent of all the boys in Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. The fathers of the girls were indifferent or hostile to them in 87.5 per cent of the cases, as compared with only 59.8 per cent of the boys...
...marvels of our age, a woman who despite her handicaps has "seen" and done more than many dream of. The "miracle worker" who awakened young Helen Keller to the world around her, who taught her to "talk," to "see," and to "hear" was Annie Sullivan, a Boston Irish girl, once blind herself...
...Campobello. Both have the advantage of a ready-made, well-known story, of ready-made audience sympathy. But Gibson's task is a far more demanding one: while Schary could work with the breezy personality of the adult F.D.R., Gibson has as his heroine a six-year-old girl who cannot speak a word. There is, of course, the wonderful Annie, beautifully played by Miss Bancroft, but Helen remains the central figure, an unusual and tremendously difficult character...