Review of An investigation of the sex relationship, marriage

Abstract

Reviews the book, An investigation of the sex relationship, marriage, delinquency and truancy of children assigned to special public school classes by J.W.W. Wallin (1922). This article is a summary of a final report to the Board of Education of the St Louis Public Schools. After seven years of examining children for Special Education, Dr. Wallin concludes that the Board of Education would have to make provisions for more mentally defective boys than for mentally defective girls. He does not give any reasons for this. He found among the Special Class enrollment an average of 2 14 per cent per family and a per cent of 3.3 of all the children enrolled in Special Education to have a record of delinquency. He makes a valuable discovery relating to the criminality and vicousness of the feeble-minded. His discoveries are contrary to previous beliefs in this matter. Dr. Wallin suggests that the Special Class training given these children has corrected this anti-social conduct. The same thing is true of truancy. Dr. Wallin found only 4.5 per cent of the total enrollment of the children in Special Education to be rated as truants. The entire article is well-rounded argument in favor of Special Education. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)