ABSTRACT
In some detail we have explored the more intimate physical background of the Approved School girl's life. In many cases to say her 'home' is to oversimplify, because of the multiplicity of environments. Some even of the consistent backgrounds were not home in any cosy sense; it might be a two-parent establishment with inadequate supervision; or reeking of ill-health, poverty or low morality. Many lost a parent in childhood and failed in varying degrees to adjust to a change of mother or father-figure. Many spent interim periods in institutions; some returned to a changed home, some were given foster parents whom they rejected in some measure, some remained for long periods in an institution, or moved to strange new institutions for their own good or that of others.
