Some Psychological Difficulties of Evacuation

In the consideration of the success or failure of evacuation it must be remembered that evacuation is essentially an emergency measure. foster-Evacuation is a temporary foster-homing. In nonra1 ^ Wartime homing of children with unsatisfactory homes is carried out y ex ? aj evacuation was designed for the child coming from the bac groun j being home who was supposed to be sufficiently buoyant and a apta e ? moved to any other home and thus so many thousand children were o so many thousand homes. Although it was hoped that some se ec ion managed by the reception committees, in fact there was so litt e time or c? tion between the various local authorities involved, that selection mere y form of the more enterprising householders quickly picking ihe chi ren ey looked most attractive, sometimes with disastrous effects on t ose un children who were left to the end. , usance Now after four months abandonment of evacuation has been sugges e of the difficulties and unnecessary burdens that have been force upon ou rather than on the difficulties of the children. , It has been generally supposed that because children ave e holidav towns for the wide open spaces of the country this means an envia e coun that never ends. This indefiniteness of period has been an importan co factor in many of the difficulties that have arisen. Parents w o pax e with their children, householders who willingly received chil ren, an themselves had not contemplated enduring the new regime for any eng o After the first month, with no end in sight and no evident danger, questioning at unrest began.