U. S. Children Like Hoboes, Says Adler, After Survey

Austrian Psychologist Thinks They Get False View of Life.

DETROIT, Jan. 17 (I.N.S.).—Most American children are like hoboes—they believe the world owes them a living.

That is the conclusion reached by Dr. Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist, after a survey of child problems in the United States.

Dr. Adler is conducting a series of lectures and child examinations in Detroit.

"Overindulgent parents are responsible for most of the failures among the people of the United States today," declared Dr. Adler. "They praise pampered children, who, when faced by life's battles, are unable to take their place in the world.

"The child feels his worth in the United States more than in Europe.

"Parents should never reveal to the child his actual worth. The child should be taught that we are only worth what we accomplish. In the United States I find that children in many cases wish to take everything and give nothing in return. They are led to believe by parents that the world owes them a living. The majority of the American children have a mistaken idea of the meaning of life."

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Fuente: "U. S. Children Like Hoboes, Says Adler, After Survey", Syracuse Journal, 17 January 1930, p. 11; International News Service (I.N.S.) dispatch, Detroit, 17 January. Transcribed from the page image at fultonhistory.com (Syracuse NY Journal 1930, 0511), checked against the OCR. Probably printed in other INS papers as well.