Youth and Justice in Western States, 1815-1950 by Jean Trépanier & Xavier Rousseaux

Author:Jean Trépanier & Xavier Rousseaux
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

3.6 The Role of Parents and Minors

Parents and minors were not always happy with the supervision. In several cases parents would be angry with the supervisor because they expected some form of help (financial support or clothes) that they did not get.

Disputes are documented in three cases. For example, ‘Cornelia’ lived in lodgings while her mother lived at home. Her mother kept asking Cornelia to come home. But the judge and supervisor both thought she would run away and go out with men again if she went back to living with her mother. The supervisor stated that Cornelia had told her, ‘I am going back to Mum. Neither you nor the juvenile judge can stop me because Mum has all her rights; she has not been deprived of parental authority’. The supervisor warned Cornelia that the police would take her away from her mother and place Cornelia in an institution. The judge told her that she must stay in her lodgings as the supervisor had instructed. Later Cornelia misbehaved in her lodgings and the juvenile judge began preparing an outplacement. The mother wrote to the judge that the supervision order was no longer needed and that she was now able to cope with the situation, but this did not convince the judge. Since most institutions asked for a medical statement to prove that the minor was free of venereal disease, the juvenile judge ordered Cornelia to see a doctor. This resulted in an angry letter from the mother:Cornelia came home all upset by the awful words you—a high-standing person—threw at her. Know this, she is not going [to the doctor] and she’s not going to you either any more, because you only break down what you should be building up. … She is and stays my child. …I waive all further help and mediation.

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