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“A Helping Hand”

Youth workers Bill Nash and Jim Boyle are house hunters, not so much for a house as for a concerned family willing to house and feed troubled youngsters temporarily. They try to give prompt* attention to those who cannot or will not live at home. For some, leaving home may have been the result of a hasty* decision, based on a scorching* remark and the subsequent* tempest* within the family. The cooling-off period away from the family is a time to soothe feelings. With sympathetic* outsiders, youngsters have a chance to redeem* themselves.

The hope, of course, is that they will learn to relate* to adults again and quickly resume* a normal life of harmony* with their own families. Some people refrain* from offering their homes, expressing vague* fears of the harmful effects on their own children. But this has not been the case, even when the problem of the “visitor” was the illegal* use of narcotics*. One parent remarked, “With us it worked the other way. The horror of drugs became real to my own son. We got a lot more than we gave”.

Alright, now, our little story for lesson 36 is finished. See you in the next part, good luck!