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Statement on Trial Marriages, July 28, 1928

Addams comments on companionate marriage and the marriage of Josephine Haldeman-Julius.

Family Morality Weddings

Statement on Marriage, ca. July 1928

Addams notes that some girls are too choosy to marry.

Humor Marital Relations

Statement on Youth, July 10, 1928

Addams discusses the challenges facing modern youth.

Lectures Youth

Does Prohibition Work?, March 23, 1928 (summary)

Addams defends Prohibition and argues that a lack of enforcement has made alcohol use more common and dangerous.

Lectures Morality Prohibition

Jane Addams Comments on a Philosophical Theory, October 11, 1927

Addams criticizes William Durant's theory that people peak early in their lives.

Criticism Philosophy Youth

Speech to the National Conference of Social Work, May 16, 1927 (excerpts)

Addams argues for gun control and placing more faith in the younger generation.

Crime Enforcement Lectures Youth

Speech to the National Conference of Social Work, May 16, 1927 (excerpts)

Addams discusses changing moral standards and their impact on youth.

Internationalism Morality United States Youth

Speech to Girls' League of Pasadena High School, April 1, 1927 (excerpts)

Addams urges young women to make the most of their opportunities and to lead by example in the continuing struggle for equality.

Lectures Women's Rights Youth

Your Child and Your Community, March 1927

Addams argues that to improve children's lives society needs to improve the conditions in which they live.

Child Welfare Social Work

Comments on Hull-House Neighborhood, c. February 28, 1927 (excerpt)

The News summarizes Addams comments about the impact of Prohibition in the Hull-House neighborhood.

Crime Prohibition Youth

Statement in Defense of the Modern Girl, December 24, 1925 (excerpts)

Addams argues that modern girls are unconventional, not immoral.

Morality Women Youth

The Spirit of the Youth, December 18, 1925 (excerpts)

Addams tells a story of a sixteen year-old bootlegger as part of a speech about juvenile delinquency.

Crime Lectures Prohibition Youth

Address to the Chicago League of Women Voters, December 12, 1925

Addams defends both the delinquent and immigrant girl in a speech to the League of Women Voters.

Immigrants Lectures Youth

Statements on Youth, December 8, 1925 (excerpts)

Addams urges for communication between generations and asserts that World War I might be responsible for present conditions.

Lectures Morality Youth

Statement in Support of Flappers, November 30, 1925

Addams offers support for the modern youth.

Lectures Youth

Statement on Youths and Drinking, March 3, 1925 (summary)

Addams notes that she is not alarmed about present day social conditions.

Lectures Prohibition Woman Suffrage Youth

Outtakes from Fox Movietone Film on Settlements (Fox News Story 6-150), May 9, 1930

Several filmed outtakes of Jane Addams discussing the history of settlements and the work that they do with a group of children. Click this link to view the video, which comes from a 35mm nitrocellulose negative. The film is hosted by the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collection. A reference card about the clip is also attached.

Film Hull-House Settlement Movement Youth

Statement on Young Couples and Housekeeping, December 27, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams comments on Judge E. F. Dunne's statement that $25 is enough for a young couple to start housekeeping. This was taken from a longer article on the topic.

Home Economics Lectures

Problem of Crime Unsolved, Let Us Start at It Anew, May 30, 1927

Addams discusses the increasing rate of juvenile crime and the efforts to combat it at a meeting of the American Crime Study Commission.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Enforcement Disarmament Juvenile Delinquency Law Lectures Prisons Social Work

After Sixty-Five, June 1, 1929

Addams reflects on the role of the elderly in society.

Articles Old Age Social Reform Youth

Public Schools, the Safeguard of Democracy, May 24, 1929

Addams presents her argument on the value of public schools to a democracy.

Children Crime Democracy Education Historical figures History Juvenile Delinquency Lectures

Interview with Baltimore Evening Sun, April 21, 1922

Addams discusses the impact of women's fashion, and jazz on morality.

Fashion Morality Music Quotes

Interview on Causes of Juvenile Delinquency, January 28, 1922

Addams argues that jazz music causes immoral dancing and leads to juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile Delinquency Morality Music Youth

Speech to Madison Y.M.C.A., January 29, 1922

Addams urges Madison youth to work with European counterparts to seek international peace.

Internationalism Peace Youth

Speech at Washburn College Chapel, January 13, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams challenges the youth of America to become involved in world events.

Internationalism Lectures Peace Youth

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Speech to the Emporia Normal School, January 12, 1922 (summary)

Addams discusses efforts made by young people in Europe to better life for all.

Lectures Peace Youth

Comment on Corporal Punishment, March 14, 1902

Addams responds to judges ordering parents to administer corporal punishment to juvenile delinquents. This was part of a longer new article.

Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Youth

Statement on Hunger and Crime, September 30, 1921

Addams argues that juvenile crime wave is caused by hunger and that relief will solve it.

Europe Food Shortages Juvenile Delinquency

Comment on Modern Girls and Materialism, ca. September 1921

An anecdote shared by Addams about judging by looks.

Humor Morality Women

My Greeting to the Youth's Companion, February 4, 1926

Addams congratulates the Youths' Companion for one hundred years of publication.

Celebrations Children Publishing Social Welfare

Unwed Mothers-Modern Youth, March 24, 1927

Addams, as told to the Newspaper Enterprise Association, discusses the murder of unwed mother Rosa Stoble and argues for love and sympathy rather than punishment and stigma. This article was syndicated and published in many newspapers in March and April.

Child Welfare Crime Morality Sex Reform Women Youth

Statement on Theater Censorship, May 2, 1907 (excerpt)

Addams supports the idea of regulating theaters aimed at juvenile audiences, but not banning children from attending.

Censorship Morality Police Social Work Theater

Problem of Crime Unsolved, Let Us Start at It Anew, May 30, 1927

Addams discusses the increasing rate of juvenile crime and the efforts to combat it at a meeting of the American Crime Study Commission.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Crime Enforcement Disarmament Juvenile Delinquency Law Lectures Prisons Social Work

Address to Physicians, ca. January 1920 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the beneficial effect of hard work on the morality of youth.

Labor Lectures Youth

Recreation for Girls In Cities, 1908

Addams argues for the value of recreation in girls' lives.

Recreation Youth

Address at a Hull House Mothers' Meeting, February 6, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams tells a joke at the Hull House Mothers' meeting.

Children Hull-House Humor Lectures

Statement at a Hull House Mothers Meeting, February 2, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams tells a joke at a mothers' meeting.

Hull-House Humor Lectures

Interview with Jane Addams, January 30, 1911

Addams and Marshall discuss play's positive effect on young children.

Children Crime Juvenile Delinquency Recreation

The True Ideal of a Public School System That Aims to Benefit All, January 25, 1908

Addams expands on the cultural values taught in industrial education and training.

Business Education Industry Lectures Youth

Dedication of Bomberger Park, June 30, 1908

Addams praises the new park established in Dayton and is drowned out by children's excitement.

Child Welfare Children Lectures Recreation

Lecture to the Fortnightly Club, March 6, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams details the evils of child labor and efforts to abolish it in Illinois.

Child Labor Child Welfare Lectures Legislation

The Child and the War, March 7, 1915 (excerpts)

An excerpt from Addams' Children's Day speech at the Free Synagogue at Carnegie Hall.

Children Peace

Interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 5, 1918

Addams discusses the effects of the war on young girls and women, efforts to ban German-language newspapers, and food conservation efforts.

Immigrants Morality Recreation World War I

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Speech to Chicago Bar Association, April 22, 1914 (excerpt)

An excerpt from Addams's talk to the Chicago Bar Association on the causes of juvenile delinquency. Dr. William Krohn also spoke on the topic.

Education Juvenile Delinquency Lectures

Speech to the Chicago Woman's Club, February 4, 1914

Addams discusses the juvenile crime rate in Chicago.

Crime Lectures Police Youth

The Girl Problem: Its Community Aspects, April 1914

Addams explains how communities needs to provide more for the youths that live there, and how there really is not a girl problem, but a problem with how all youths are handled.

Children Family Hull-House Immigrants Recreation Writings Youth

What Should Our Schools Do for Boys and Girls of 14?, September 22, 1912

Addams advocates for the education of young children alongside Young in the form of vocational training.

Child Labor Child Welfare Children Education

Let Children Play, Says Jane Addams, March 25, 1911

Addams argues that if children have a chance to play outside they are less likely to become criminals.

Crime Lectures Recreation Youth

The Spirit of Youth, May 30, 1909

Addams discusses the problem of juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile Delinquency Youth

Jane Addams: The Juvenile Adult Offender, October 1913

Addams explains how educational background, economic situations, and family predicaments have an impact on juvenile crime; and she argues for special treatment of the "juvenile adult." This is the tenth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a women's roles in affecting change.

Crime Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Prisons Youth

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