Non-supporters: as potential deserters, 149-163; legal treatment of, 149-150; analogous to deserters, 150-153, 188; characteristics, 151, 189, 190; wife's influence a factor, 152-154; illustrations, 155, 158, 160; reclamation, illustrated, 161-163; approach to desertion, 188-191 Non-support Law: in Massachusetts, 149-150 _Normal Family, The._ Margaret F. Byington, 12 _North of Boston._ Robert Frost, 14 _One Thousand Homeless Men._ Alice W. Solenberger, 157 Overindulgence: teaching self-control, 25-26; wage-earning wives, 154 Pelligrini, Orfeo: case story of, 99 Permanence of family life, 9, 11-15 Permanent desertions, see _Divorce_ Philadelphia Court of Domestic Relations, report on reconciliations, 135-136 Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity: report of, 7 Photographs of deserters: society presents to wife, 10; tracing out-of-town clues, 78, 84, 85 Physical condition: ill health, 34; "difficulty" of pregnant women, 35; maladjustments, 38; recreation essential, 47; recommendations, 196-199 "Pregnancy desertion": how explained, 34-35 Preventive treatment: past opinions, 187; non-support leading to desertion, 188-192; for first desertions, 192-193; bureaus for advice and consultation, 193-199; suggestions for, 196-199 Probation: testimony of social workers, 119-120; and imprisonment, 121-124; legal separation proceedings during, 128; officers effect reconciliation, 132; illustrations, 133-134, 137, 141; "stay-away" probation, 138; economy plan for officers, 178; number and efficiency of officers, 182-184; consultation bureau, 193 Provisional quality of desertions, 9 Psychoanalysis: mental deficients, and heredity, 24; incompatibility and sex perversion, 37-39. See also _Sex factors_ Psychology: rationalization process, 20; mental defectives, 24; sex incompatibility, 37-39; studies on, 39; knowledge of, essential, 103 Publicity: photographs a medium of, 10, 78, 84, 85; agencies and newspapers, 84-90; divorce by "publication," 101; illustration, 196 _Queen's Poor, The._ M. Loane, 154 Questionnaires: liberal relief policy, 62; searching for deserters, 78; treatment of desertion, 106 Ratio of desertions: economic factors, 21, 31, 32-33 Reconciliation: factors that prompt, 13-14; and the "other woman," 40-41; following court marriage, 95-96; after prison term, 121-122; considerations involved, 125-132; unwillingness of wife, illustrated, 131; criminal tendencies prevent, 134; affection a safe basis of, 135; practice of N.Y. Association for Improving Condition of the Poor, 136-137; volunteer visitors helpful, 139-140; case worker's success in effecting, illustrated, 142-148; bureaus to promote, 193-199 Recreation: why essential, 47 Red Cross Home Service, 81, 159, 160 Relatives: interference of, 43-44, 49 Religion: differences in, a study of, 26, 27