Families in trouble / Earl Lomon Koos.

  • Koos, Earl Lomon, 1905-1960.
Date:
1946
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Credit: Families in trouble / Earl Lomon Koos. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    б2 Families in Trouble that damn near ruined us. Well, we got out of that mess all right, and now look at what happened just now when we lost the girl. The whole thing is, you never get in the same jamb twice—it just happens that you get a shot of bad luck and something goes wrong. There just ain't no map of the kind of jamb you're goin' to get into. The only thing that happens is you get kicked a little bit further down when somethirí happens, but you sure don't learn muchi If Mr. Berger's opinion is at all typical, the families with few troubles do not learn much from experiencing troubles, probably because the initiating cause is different in each instance. It will be seen below that in the families with more frequent troubles, there are repeaters and families with distinct patterns of troubles. FAMILIES WITH TROUBLES The types of troubles observed in these families are shown in Table VIII. These are listed as initiating causes although it was difficult in many instances to determine the primary cause. For ex¬ ample, where there was a violation by the child of the moral stand¬ ards of the family (Czabot) and at the same time a health problem (the gonorrheal infection) as well as a problem of parent-child rela¬ tionships, it was difficult to designate one as the initiating cause. Where this occurred, the one was designated as primary which was first to put in its appearance (in the Czabot family the health prob¬ lem, without which the other problems would not have arisen). The initiating causes divide into two types, financial and inter¬ personal. It should be kept in mind that the first type of troubles was concerned with financial problems per se, that is, the necessity for meeting financial obligations which resulted from death, ill¬ ness, poor management or unemployment. The second type arose from the inability of the family to adjust to a particular situation within the family unit, such as illness, pregnancy, husband-wife con¬ flict, and so on. The significance of the distribution of these one hundred and