The Children's Courts are a response to the effort of society to give each child a fair chance in life.

There are needed, also, devices of education and of compulsory social service and social obedience which may tend to give society a fair deal from every adult.
Prodigal sons and daughters, therefore, who are abnormal, weak, morally invalid, must be cared for in the way easiest and best for the social whole.

Parents must help and not hinder in that task.
Prodigal sons and daughters who are normal save for some accidental divergence from legal or actual right-doing must be helped to come back into the line of social usefulness.

And, above all, the facts of juvenile delinquency should give us impetus, strong and intelligent, toward a social and family discipline that shall make freedom and happiness of childhood a way to social order and never a pathway toward social degeneracy or personal wrong-doing.
QUESTIONS ON PRODIGAL SONS AND DAUGHTERS 1.

What has been the general trend of social ideal and practice in the treatment of the criminal and the vicious?
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