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who was brought up in the same environment as the children of IV-10. 

 She was slow, with slight ability to advance at school. Has married 

 an ignorant, alcoholic, shiftless member of Line D, and is now sexually 

 immoral, alcoholic, giving no care whatever to her home or children. 

 Another illustration is furnished by IV-114, belonging to a better 

 branch of Line D. Her father was a quick-witted industrious Irish- 

 man; her mother a scheming, sharp-tongued woman, though the 

 ablest daughter of II-IL She (IV-114) was the dullest of her frater- 

 nity, with little foresight or ability to calculate. She married a shift- 

 less, irresponsible, alcoholic man of feeble-minded stock. Of her twelve 

 children who reached maturity, only four made fair progress in school 

 and can now be rated as decent, self-respecting citizens. 



While there has been little interference in the trend of affairs on the 

 part of societies for the care of neglected children, a great many of the 

 members of these networks have been taken into good families and 

 given an opportunity of developing any capabilities they might 

 possess. These cases will now be considered and an attempt made to 

 gage the effect of superior opportunity on their inherent qualities. 



Case 1 (IV-9, Chart B).— He is the son of III-34, Chart B, who belongs to 

 a family having many capable and respectable members. III-34 suffered 

 from some obscure brain disease as a child; grew very slowly; was unable to 

 learn anything at school, and later earned a scant livelihood by the crudest 

 labor. From his marriage to a violent, shiftless sex-offender of bad stock this 

 son (IV-9) was born. His mother eloped soon afterwards, and he was taken 

 by his father to an unmarried sister who maintained a comfortable home by 

 dressmaking, and is a woman of good ideals, active in church and social circles 

 of her town. He was always incorrigible; bent on all sorts of mischief; stole, 

 lied, and refused to learn anything useful. Later was given good influences 

 in the home of IV-1, Line A. He has persisted all his life in a malicious, 

 irresponsible existence, clearly a case of impotence to respond to any of the 

 good influences of the environments. 



Case 2 (V-192, Chart A). — She was the second daughter of an immoral 

 woman belonging to Line D, who had no sense of number and was not able to 

 give her children proper care. Her father was lazy, shiftless, with little judg- 

 ment and large conceit. She was given a comfortable home, taught house- 

 keeping, and sent to school regularly, where she made little progress. Had 

 an illegitimate child and later married another man. Her home presents the 

 extreme of filth and disorder; her children are ragged and uncared-for. 



Case 3 (V-198). — The younger sister of V-192. Was taken into the home 

 of IV-9.5, who, though lacking in sense of number, is civil, chaste, self-respect- 

 ing. She never learned anything at school; was always a brazen, evil-tongued 

 girl. After her marriage neglected her family to run after the "Hunkeys" 

 and Italians, and now has left her husband to live with another man of bad 

 family. 



Case 4 (V-56, Chart A). — She was the daughter of a shiftless, sexually 

 immoral man of low mentality. Mother belonged to a good family of good 

 mentality; her marriage, however, was a forced one. The daughter went as 

 a young girl to another State, first as servant in a family of considerable 

 means and culture. She gave up for the most part association with her family. 



