Repeated desertions: frequency of, 8; "intermittent husbands," 43, 153; suggestions for tracing the man, 79; relative nature of, 92 Responsibility: self-therapy illustrated, 8; deserters disclaim, 19-20; essentials of early training, 25-26; education promotes, 29, 198; and charitable relief, 48, 100; wage-earning wives, and non-supporters, 154 Richmond, Mary E.: on volunteers in case work, 78, 106, 140 Ridicule: of matrimony, by press and films, 45-46 Russell Sage Foundation, study, American marriage laws, 186 Selective Service Act, 165 Sex factors: determine forgiveness, 13-14; statistical summary, 21-22; "pregnancy desertion," 34-35; incompatibility, 37-40; immorality, 39, 96; knowledge of sex psychology essential, 103 _Sex in Relation to Society._ Havelock Ellis, 39 _Sexual Question, The._ A. Forel, 39 Seybert Institution, Philadelphia, on relation of income to court order, 173 Slacker marriages, 97 Social workers: opinions of, 7-8; appreciative faculties of, 11; knowledge of sex relations imperative, 37-38; diagnoses referred to specialists, 38; undervalue recreation, 47; questionnaires on treatment, 62, 78, 106; detective methods, 68-90; agency co-operation, 78-90; sex problems, 103; necessary information for, summarized, 104-105; protection of legal separation, 127; successful case records, 142-148 Solenberger, Alice W., 157 Spiritual values: of family life, 11-12, 29 Standards: and temperamental differences, 36; community concepts, 45-46; neighborhood influence, 47, 102 State aid to mothers, 63; vital statistics, 93 Temporary desertions: report of Philadelphia Society, 7-8; domestic crises and vagaries, 34-35. See also _Reconciliation_ Theories to explain desertion, 20. See also _Causal factors_ Treatment of desertion: policy, past and present, 50-64; court intervention, 50-54; interviewing the man, 55-60, 105; relief to families, 61; opinions of case workers, 62; case story, 62; state aid, 63; closing the case, time for, 63; changes in worker's attitudes, 64; whereabouts known, willing to return, 125-148; Philadelphia Court of Domestic Relations, study by, 135-136; N.Y. Association for Improving Condition of the Poor, practice of, 136; family restoration illustrated, 137; volunteers recommended, 139-140; wife relents, illustration of reconciliation, 141; study of successful worker's records, 142-148 United Hebrew Charities, 71 Vagaries: marital, 34-35 Venereal disease: relation to desertion, 41 Verification: of marriage, 98-99; in Italy, 100; Latin-American custom, 100 Volunteers: service valuable for effecting reconciliation, 139-140 Wanderlust: instability of temperament, 19; relation to desertion, 32 Warrant for arrest: protection afforded wife, 127; system inadequate, 168 West, Alfred: case story of, 30 _Wife and Family Desertion: Emigration as a Contributory Cause._ J.R. Motion, 171