ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors found that their conclusions fell into two categories. The first category related to the immediate issue, viz. why a larger proportion of the nine hundred and thirty-nine boys and girls met did not think it worth their while to join any of the organizations set up specifically for the enjoyment and welfare of the adolescents of their neighbourhood. The second category concerned the general well-being of the boys and girls, particularly in so far as this was affected by the way in which they spent their free time. Courting was another example of more mature tastes which clashed horribly with youth groups. On the whole the girls made less use of societies than did their brothers. In the Oxfordshire villages the girls, after they had reached fourteen, dropped out of the society rather more often than did the boys.
