Book Reviews : Young Mothers Josephine Kamm Brockhampton Press 15s
| Published date | 01 June 1966 |
| Date | 01 June 1966 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455056601200216 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
taking place allow selectivity and is there
and the other people with whom Pat
a need for a further appraisal of the
comes into contact who try to help her
Detention Centre structure’?
are
carefully described, with simple
Since this project was completed statu-
psychological assessments.
tory after-care has been introduced.
All the references to and descriptions
There are now facilities for a compre-
of the social agencies and workers in-
hensive follow-up of those who have
volved are unsentimental and accurate -
served a sentence of Detention Centre
Mrs. Kamm is clearly experienced in this
training. A further project would com-
field - and yet the book is a story and
plete the picture and perhaps enable
interesting to the large, but unsophisti-
wider and more positive conclusions to
cated, age-group for which it is written.
be drawn.
DAV1D A. FOWLER
I lent Young Mothers to a carefully
selected 14-year-old (who, incidentally,
Young Mothers
lent it to all her mates) and she com-
mented &dquo;It’s
good - and my mum
Josephine Kamm
thought it was good too - but someone
Brockhampton Press 15s.
ought to write a book like that for the
boys!&dquo;
This is an excellent little book which
Well, Mrs. Kamm - how about a
a woman probation ofiicer - and indeed,
book for the boys?
any social worker doing preventive work
with the 14-17
M. WATTS
age group girls - would
find useful for her office library.
It is a simply told tale of a grammar
The Church in Social Work
school girl who is pregnant and what
happens, but its value lies in the straight-
Penelope Hall and Ismene V. Howes
forward factual accounts of events which
Routledge & Kegan Paul 35s.
are only too familiar to us.
This is
The central figure,
an account of the social work
Pat Henley - the
undertaken in the Church of
&dquo;young mother&dquo; - has
England
no father.
He
from the Foundation of Christ’s
deserted the family
Hospi-
some years pre-
tal in the sixteenth
viously, her mother is unsympathetic...
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