in the limited interest of voters and politicians alike in the fate of our children.
In the early 1940s also, Fritz Redl and David Wineman (1951) studied the disorganization and breakdown of behavior control among Detroit children (Pioneer House). By 1966, some 300 institutions for the residential care of emotionally disturbed children were operating in the United States. Significantly, most of these establishments had begun residential care immediately after World War I and Word War II - periods of social reorganization when those fathers and husbands who were still alive came back to single-parent homes after long, painful and family-shattering absences.
Institutions for emotionally disturbed children, psychiatric in-patient units, detention facilities, and institutions for predelinquents and for delinquents blossomed, and it became evident that most delinquency had its roots in early psychic traumata. Inasmuch as the mental hygiene community was strongly influenced by the European schools of psychology, the conceptual and therape
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