ed by many people to mean that you
should not use corrective measures in the upbringing of children and
that their natural impulses must not be suppressed. Some of these people
have even thought it wrong to say "No" to a child.

People brought up in this way have now become parents. It is difficult
for them to adopt an attitude to their children which does not go to
extremes either way. As a revolt against their own upbringing, they are
either too firm in their control or too lax. Children brought up in both
of these ways have been featured in the case notes of delinquent
children placed before the Committee.

=(5) Materialistic Concepts in Society=

Education, medical and hospital treatment, industrial insurance,
sickness and age benefits, and other things are all provided by the
State, when the need arises, without direct charge upon the individual.
The virtues of thrift and self-denial have been disappearing. Incentive
does not have the place in our economy which it used to have. The
tendency has been to turn to the State for the supply of all material
needs. By encouraging parents to rely upon the State their sense of
responsibility for the upbringing of their children has been diminished.
The adolescent of today has been born into a world where things
temporal, such as money values and costs, are discussed much more than
spiritual things. The weekly "child's allowance" is regarded by some
children as their own perquisite from the benevolent Government.

The dangers inherent in this materialistic view is that many young
people who could profit from further education do not feel a sufficient
inducement to continue study. They leave school too soon, and the
broadening influences which could come from further education in the
daytime, or the evenings, is lost to them. In the result, these young
people, having too much interest in material things, and not enough in
the things of the mind and the spirit, become a potential source of
trouble in the community.

One suggestion made to the Committee was that saving and thrift should
be encouraged, or that this might be enforced through the Children's
Court in cases where it is found that offenders have fallen into
criminal immorality through having more money than suffices to pay the
reasonable necessaries of life. While the powers of the Children's Court
might be extended or used for this purpose in extreme cases where
adolescents are brought before the Court, the be