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| Preface | [vii] | |
| I. | The Rural Worker and the Country Home | [1] |
| II. | The Family in Our Country Life | [15] |
| III. | The Rural Worker and the Country Schools | [41] |
| IV. | The Country Church and the Rural Worker | [53] |
| V. | Mental Hygiene in Rural Districts | [71] |
| VI. | The Social Value of Rural Experience | [89] |
| VII. | Rural vs. Urban Environment | [103] |
| VII. | The Mind of the Farmer | [117] |
| IX. | Psychic Causes of Rural Migration | [135] |
| X. | Rural Socializing Agencies | [149] |
| XI. | The World-War and Rural Life | [169] |
THE RURAL WORKER AND THE COUNTRY HOME
I
THE RURAL WORKER AND THE COUNTRY HOME
With reference to the care of children, faulty homes may be divided into two classes. There are homes that give the children too little care and there are homes that give them too much. The failure of the first type of home is obvious. Children need a great deal of wise, patient, and kindly care. Even the lower animals require, when domesticated, considerable care from their owners, if they are to be successfully brought from infancy to maturity. Of course children need greater care. No one doubts this. And yet it is certainly true that there are, even in these days of widespread intelligence, many homes where the children obtain too little care and in one way or another are seriously neglected.