New Britain herald., 1930-12-05
URBAN CONDITIONS
 D|SRUPTING HOMES
Crowds Breaking Down Family Center, Conference Reveals

Washington, Dee. 5.-The White House Conference on Chld Health and Protection studied changes in American family iite
 \ comurt,e headed bv Dr 1.outse SraueN chief Of the Bureau c Homy Economies. r~cogml.d cur irut thought lna 'h" '7nuly has jren uuda~eoJ1- rrd and defmnc ,.ang,z l"4 found tNat dislntosra- ion o- r.- "oIdsr family llrr- ,.mcd 10 o. indicated n, statistic ua larr.aE,. divorce. -IL- Q .am.- Us and proportion O. or.hz 10 .Cpul5..ou-
 Coadit.ou7 a. p~odacoon and geuaump-on -..a 10 remove from he hon. g.rtag functions tormer- lv conSlderoI rnlursrt m famHy llte. It Is admitted But despite the ludubts5ta influence Of trends in modern industrial civilization. one learns:
 "Tde~e is e}"dence os a different sort that The 'arnlv is not under gong any fundamental change; that those funur ons which arg ur- tug removed from tho home are superficial Iu their n3'ua. and that, when outside forcs- oa,h more deeply into tand.wuVl family structure, thrr" js r.s5sauoo to .Dofr 1nnueaea which will r-ealt u control ot those agencies which .tl- 1.nge upom family ,nteGrirt.'
 study Home Life
 The committee studied tho hone ugirona.u ol 2.uuo school chI.- ,rsn and learned such things as uese.
 Maruaza Is earlier and families larger ja predonnaurlv Inanutac- turing cities. r""l' tlmjIl.5 are larger than others in ro"al con- inrmties.
 Toryign-born families coming rom d rural culture tend to con- r7nue their rlrtl family pattern ,rcn when utmg in clte5 while nose O. essentially uroaA culture such a Russian Jews approximate inc family pattern o1 native urban cI'lzens.
 The per cent of marAed popu.a- ion increases as the size Of the community 1ecreasc Chlldless marriages a.. mora common in rIrfcs. The #z, ot tN, natural am ily living at nome t t.crsassr "s th" elz= O tb. yomug4. increases and inc 'tma. nmo.r 0. children horn has la. san. fr,"J. SuGle lu,H- l9-z a,cra4se and muiti-famt'" 41suA-- increase With the size Of Inc community.
 City families move mos. frc- qtsntlv and the per cent of 'hos- N no stay tu the community Of thelr w~th seems 70 he inverselT corre- 1ated with the size of the commit ujty
 The number of msrrjed women u.ployad outsid- tho home has IT, .reased faster than th, rombsr Of .lngle women. most rapidly ill larger places,
 Bon divorce and tl'eEiumste births inercaU sIth the slze O. the communtN
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 Thus d pgsslmistic outlook for the family in an urban industrial c!vil- 5aatiou seems 10 O. justified, GaNs b. Scau1.N. rr.t on the other laod city children are better adJ!-pai than rFU cmhtr"r. aroordiaS 10 the study O -n- 900n. Rural .anH- lies r,er-t -..n-. and the couJ'"- -ure is mad. -gat there are some aspects Q. -a, old family pattern which should n. .hanErd. ''n~cw9l. .aiatrd 10 ;g. anfuori,artau end jH- dtn4cr. re par0ual attitudes 0 the uiouai aauJ..'
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