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...widespread is parental rejection of children who were not wanted in the first place. "Much social work in this area," she said, "is picking up the pieces instead of going to the roots of the matter-that is, granting the mother the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy." Judge Orman Ketcham of the District of Columbia Juvenile Court reported that "most of the juveniles who come before me were unwanted children...
...flaws, the juvenile-court system has developed some outstanding judges. Colorado's Ben B. Lindsey, the famous advocate of "companionate marriage" who died in 1943, spent four decades introducing numerous reforms, such as a Colorado law forbidding the charging of children under 16 with crime. Juvenile Judge Orman W. Ketcham, of Washington, D.C., a faculty member of the current summer college, has campaigned for years for stronger legal safeguards for children. Justine Wise Polier, for 32 years a justice in New York's family courts, has written books advocating a more compassionate approach to juvenile problems...
Worst of Both Worlds. Last March the Supreme Court gave warning of its attitude in a decision that applied only to the District of Columbia. Accused of rape, robbery and housebreaking, Morris A. Kent Jr., 16, had been under the "exclusive jurisdiction" of Washington's Juvenile Court Judge Orman W. Ketcham. Instead, the boy was tried as an adult, given a 30-to-90-year sentence. The Supreme Court ruled that Judge Ketcham had wrongly "waived" jurisdiction without giving Kent counsel, hearing or explanation...
Putnam is presently writing a book Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics, scheduled for publication early next year. Putnam said that one of the decisive factors persuading him to transfer to Harvard has been his work with Willard Van Orman Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, and Rogers G. Albritton, Professor of Philosophy...
Errant children cannot be committed as juvenile delinquents beyond the age of 21. Yet they can be held for weeks or months without a hearing. According to Washington, D.C.'s Judge Orman Ketcham, U.S. county jails hold as many as 100,000 children per year. Moreover, because they can be held to 21, juveniles often get longer sentences than adults do for the same offense...