ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the place of the ‘family gang ‘in the general social scheme, deferring the problems of religious education. The enormous increase in the facilities for quick and easy transport, together with the equally great extension of public amusements, such as skating-rinks, dance-halls and cinemas, has been one powerful factor in the change. Moreover the whole attitude of the State towards the children has altered profoundly during the past century; a hundred years ago children were regarded as the property of their parents who were free to do almost anything they liked to their offspring—short of actually murdering them. The great mass of the parents of our country—those who are neither left-wing liquidators nor the disciples of Mr. Barrett—waver uneasily between the several opinions.
