The Unadjusted Girl, With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior Analysis — John Shaqi
The Unadjusted Girl, With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior AnalysisThomas, William Isaac
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The Unadjusted Girl, With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior Analysis
Thomas, William Isaac
Female juvenile delinquents -- Case studies; Young women
That nature has brought us up from the amœba to man should give us
confidence in Life Force. Life is not so simple as to have one
“definition of the situation” solve the whole problem. This will take
further trial and error. The scientific mind observes, differentiates,
finds contrasts and resemblances. Bits of inorganic elements may be
identical, but in the study of living organisms the higher the type the
greater the possibility of variation, till in man no two are identical
in finger print, still less so in emotional reaction. Even when a new
period of socialization shall have simplified life, each individual must
still be considered separately, each personality approached with utmost
reverence, accepted for values and possibilities which when developed
displace asocial behavior. The problems of sexual disharmony, retarded
emotion, affectional distress, which send people of wealth to the
sanitarium or divorce court, lead the poor to delinquency. The future
court of domestic relations may become a clinic for all.
On the whole this period of individualization is more fortunate for
women than otherwise. Their struggle for independence is winning higher
standards of affectional association in friendships with both sexes,
higher psychic and social levels of group coöperation. Though one
deplores the necessity of divorce one watches its increase with the
feeling that consecutive marriages are an advance upon simultaneous
promiscuity. From marriage based upon possession there is evolving a
fine comradeship in which psychic fertilization becomes ever more
significant as is seen in the collaboration of man and woman in art,
science, literature and social service. While marriage within the law
may attain the highest level of human mating known today, and social
sanction is necessary for right environment for children, it is not law
which achieves this result but the ever evolving adjustments of fine
personality shown by men and women in whom emotion and intellect and
will have matured harmoniously and in whose lives sublimation begun in
childhood has given stability.
Sex has always baffled humanity. Alternately it has been considered
sacred and sinful, attached to temple worship or cast beyond the pale.
In this day of scientific synthesis we are solving some at least of the
fundamentals of this Welträtsel.
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