AREA OF OBSERVATION - DOMESTICITY The sap is up.......... If there are no new clothes, no fairs; no cricket pitches no standards to be reached, no country to be explored, no vision? Then cars will be stolen and trees will be destroyed. Teenagers may not easily recognise that the sources......... are in the deep inter-personal relations within the family. Interruption may lead to inconspicuous privacy-guarding walls which in time may completely inhibit the easy give and take (communication - drugs etc.) Children fight for a while by being nuisances, bad tempered or ill, but if these strategies have no success they give up and are abandoned to despair. Family communications are severed (F.M. as family) and perhaps in spring-time alternative solace in pastures foreign to the standards of their home is found. (Sought or imagined) For the young need someone to talk to, to listen to, to quarrel with. Everyone needs the opportunity to give and receive confidences, someone with whom they are emotionally interwoven, whom they subtly control and are controlled by. Without this children are out of hand. Without this social give and take we pay a heavy price later in mental hospitals and prisons. The child who cannot sin and quarrel safely in the family and still be loved is not free to gambol in the spring. Because he hasn't had his time he may mortgage the future. The prisoner does time. Jocelyn Peters May 27th 1962. Observer and D.P.H.! (Dr. Edna Oakshott)