8LS| home to see wnat uis au.auuui.Protest Blaming YouthsProbation officers at the conven-tion were vehement in protest againstthe assumption that the youngster is entirely to blame for the current rasii of juvenile delinquency which has spread across the country.A large part of the conflict wim youth, says Austin L- Porterfield, professor of sociology at Texas Christian University, grows out of the peevishness, rejection, impatience, irresponsibility, or criminal attitudes of those who complain.Parents, most everyone is filling to agree, are usually to blame for the unsettled home conditions andof innocent recreational facilitieswhich drive children out into, the streets, according to the Conventionconsensus. MBut these conditions, added Porterfield. are not always due to the parent; but in many cases attributable to neighbors, school teachers, or perhaps even a ppliceman whobecomes cross and irritable with noisy children when the temperature soars and the kids must play in the streets for lack of a supervised play-. ground.Iss-y.v*if?