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The author gives clinical examples, mostly male, of children who refuse to work and refers to the problem as an 'epidemic of sorts that is plaguing the land'. The causes of the 'epidemic' are: 1, psychodynamic, with the child having intense Oedipal fears and still feeling need of his father, and 2, cultural, with
the growth of industrialization, confusion of sexual and social roles, threat of war, and permissiveness leading to irresponsibility. The references in this article do not include Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents.