This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: bbffrrpp Surnames: Lamb Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.massachusetts.unknown/6945.1.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi again. I agree. And, it was not always the man in the woman's life. I've read stories about the parents of a girl -- who didn't like their daughter's lifestyle. And, wasn't it President Lincoln's son who committed his mother to a "home" of some sort? And, daughters have been known to do similar things. And, there are "people with mental-health issues" who can accuse "healthy people" with bad things. And, don't forget the story which came out within the last 10 years of the woman who was in, I think, Danvers State Hospital for most of her life. I think it was a nurse who discovered the lady was deaf. She didn't have a "mental health" problem, she just couldn't hear anyone. And there were probably man teen-age boys, who became unruly and their parents had them committed -- because they didn't know what else to do. My great-uncle had a brother who was sent to a Reform School near Lowell, MA, as a "teen-ager" ~1918. His father had returned to northern Maine, so his mother was then a single-parent in MA during WW I years. And, he might have been just a teen-age boy who didn't want to go to school. But, the 1920 census still had him at that Reform School. Betty (near Lowell, MA) Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.