The Problem of Child Development

In general, child research is primarily directed by the current problems and preoccupations of the several branches of life science which utilize the child as a convenient and significant subject for investigation and experiment on those professional problems. It must be evident, however, that the human child, as a developing organism with a prolonged infancy, may be approached as a subject of scientific inquiry giving rise to problems which are in many ways peculiar to themselves, calling for a formulation and