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JAMES B. CONANT New York City...
Msgr. Joseph A. McCaffrey's denunciation of "coddlers" and "do-gooders" as the chief contributing factors to New York's juvenile crimes [Sept. 14] seems to ignore completely the basic source of trouble. The Roman Catholic Church must accept its fair share of the responsibility. As long as the church insists on its adherents bringing children into the world regardless of their ability or prospects of providing them with decent homes, so long shall we require "more jails" to meet "force with force...
...sorry that your article didn't emphasize the oddness of New York's reaction as well as the aimlessness of the delinquency...
Juvenile delinquency is not only a problem of New York but a problem of the whole nation. In Western Europe, law is not laughed at and toyed with as it is in the U.S. It is tough and means what it says...
...studies are in progress, one in New York City and one in Washington, D.C. The first is being carried out by the New York City Youth Board, applying the table to about 250 boys in the first grade of two public schools in high delinquency areas in the Bronx. This experiment has been in process since 1953, and will be continued until the youths are about 17 years...