Cannot Replace the HomeBy Lillian D. Wald(Of Henry Street Settlement, New York.)
By Lillian D. Wald
(Of Henry Street Settlement, New York.)
We acknowledge the inability and the inefficiency of the parents and the home to control the fortunes of the child when we substitute for them the parental function of government; nevertheless, the strongest of education remains in the home, and the school and the settlement and other agencies that hover over it cannot replace that home.