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6 Crime & Delinquency 1 (1960)

handle is hein.journals/cadq6 and id is 1 raw text is: NPPA NATIONAL PROBATION AND PAROLE ASSOCIATION Journal Volume 6 January 1960 Number 1 The Legal Nature of Neglect THOMAs D. GILL Judge, Juvenile Court for the State of Connecticut, Hartford He took it and bit it to see if it was good, and then he said he was going down to get some whisky; said he hadn't had a drink all day. When he had got out on the shed, he put his head in again, and cussed me for putting on frills and trying to be better than him; and when I reckoned he was gone he came back and put his head in agaif, and told me to mind about that school because he was going to lay for me and lick me if I didn't drop that.... The Judge and the widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him and let one of them be my guardian; but it was a new judge that had just come, and he didn't know the old man; so he said courts mustn't interfere and separate families if they could help it; said he'd druther not take a child away from its father. So Judge Thatcher and the widow had to quit on the business. -MARK TWAIN, Huckleberry Finn T IS doubtful that the law as it existed in mid-19th century Amer- :a would have permitted any judge, new or old, to provide a proper ome for the unfortunate Huck or to iterfere effectively with the natural ght of a fond parent to mistreat is child. For 200 years, countless Huck inns, abandoned, neglected, depend- it, and above all, defenseless, had ioved across the American scene, hapless shadows, too often as ill served by the public's manifestations of its concern as by its indifference. Born of and largely controlled by the Eliza- bethan Poor Laws whose heavy hand had dominated assistance to the un- fortunate from earliest colonial days, children's care was characterized by its anonymity and inexpensiveness. Placed in the enforced servitude of indentured apprenticeship, cloistered in poor houses, and later in orphan I >p. 1-128 reprinted with permission by :raus Reprint Corporation.

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