By Allen Appel, Sherry Conway Appel
We will be able to by no means thank our fathers adequate for the detailed moments that make us cherish our early life thoughts. It's these little issues - solving toys, barbecuing the precise burger, employing one thousand band-aids - that count number for thus a lot and that we occasionally take for granted.
Illustrated all through with classic black and white drawings, every one of those heartfelt thank-yous can pay tribute to the considerate and loving acts our dads do for us every day. This small, captivating ebook will allow dads recognize that their assistance and help made us into the little children we are today.
This is the correct present for all events and dads!
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ULSCA D495 (HQ)PSU/1. 5. A. Cohen, The Revolution in Post-war Family Casework: The Story of Pacifist Service Units and Family Service Units 1940–1959 (Lancaster, 1998), p7. 6. Minutes of the PSU national committee, December 16 1940. ULSCA D495(HQ)PSU/1. Minutes of the Liverpool PSU management committee, November 27 1943; minutes of the Liverpool PSU finance sub-committee, January 8 1944. ULSCA D495(MA)M1/1. 7. Cohen, Revolution in Post-war Family Casework, p17. 8. Minutes of the Liverpool PSU committee, October 12 1940.
Stephens, Problem Families: An experiment in social rehabilitation (London, 1945), p47. 43. See, for example, minutes of the Liverpool PSU committee, February 10 1943, February 24 1943, March 10 1943, March 31 1943, September 13 1944, October 4 1944; and minutes of the Liverpool PSU unit meeting, October 29 1942, December 3 1942, February 11 1943, February 25 1943, March 18 1943, April 15 1943, April 22 1943, May 6 1943. ULSCA D495(HQ)PSU/2. 44. Stephens, Problem Families, pp61–3. 45. P. Goldring, Friend of the Family: The Work of Family Service Units (Newton Abbott, 1973), p174.
Contacts have been made with several official organisations on such matters as employment, income, lost clothing coupons, housing, sanitary defects, health of various members of family, school attendance…75 While the problems faced by that family were probably unusually severe, a similar lack of basic household equipment was noted frequently in casenotes and was an indication not of incompetence – although that might have made an unsatisfactory state of affairs worse – but of extreme poverty. In many cases the suffering of the family was exacerbated by the failure of landlords to maintain their property to a reasonable standard.
