Juvenile Courts

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Dec 9, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 47.

A SUPERIOR judge in one of our Western counties recently appointed a committee of six to assist him in his juvenile court work in one of the outlying towns of his district. There are a great many people who point with pride to our juvenile courts as one of the signs of progress in this time. In the days when our mothers and fathers were judge, jury, and executive officers in the juvenile courts, we had far better success and a much better condition of society. It may be taken as a rule that has practically no exceptions whatever, that where a father and a mother are doing their full duty in an intelligent way in their home, their children are never brought into juvenile courts, or any other kind of courts, for that matter. The facts of the situation are that fathers and mothers are either indifferent to their children, or else they are so fully occupied in business or pleasure that they neglect them, or with some other excuse they fail to give them the training and the moral government that they require. Because of this situation every section of the country has to have its juvenile courts. It should be plain to any one, that these conditions are a strictly literal fulfilment of the statement in God's word that one of the many things that will make the last days perilous is that children will be disobedient to parents. Please read carefully the first five verses of 2 Timothy 3.