2: Evaluating Parental Effects on Child Development

Rapid change in social conditions, in housing customs, recreations, social mores . . . makes a demand upon parents for a philosophy and methods based on today, (NSSE Yearbook, p. 67) [while] The community, examining the child at the close of his preschool and most fundamental years, and finding him wanting, consistently lays the responsibility for this lack at the door of the home, [and], further, demands that the home remedy the situation. Forest (1927), p. 231