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Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment

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Broken Homes: A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment

Joanna Carver Colcord

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Desertion was called the poor man's divorce, and Joanna Colcord met it daily as a New York charity superintendent. Her 1919 study examines why husbands vanish, what becomes of the families left behind, and how caseworkers can actually help. One of the first professional treatments of family breakdown in American social work. Compassion organized into method.

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30 chapters

  1. 1SOCIAL WORK SERIES
  2. 2BROKEN HOMES
  3. 3A STUDY OF FAMILY DESERTION AND ITS SOCIAL TREATMENT
  4. 4JOANNA C. COLCORD
  5. 5SUPERINTENDENT OF THE CHARITY ORGANIZATION SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  6. 6PREFACE
  7. 7CONTENTS
  8. 8BROKEN HOMES I
  9. 9FOOTNOTES:
  10. 10II
  11. 11FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12III
  13. 13FOOTNOTES:
  14. 14IV
  15. 15FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16V
  17. 17FOOTNOTES:
  18. 18VI

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