Another instance of a similar nature was successfully handled by the credit manager of a big corporation where he used his knowledge to deter­mine the responsibility of customers. This particular credit manager was invited to talk on his experiences before a large business group. After the talk one of the business men pushed forward and asked for a few minutes of the speaker’s time. “You may be able to help us with our son,” he said. “My wife and I feel that we may have to send him either to a military school, or let the juvenile court send him to a state school. We simply can­not manage him.   He’s not a fool, but he has outgrown us.”

As a result of that few minutes conversation, the father sent the lad’s writing to the credit manager for handwriting analysis test. Then he asked for the writing of both parents. He studied those two specimens, and then visited the troubled family. It was a long and a serious interview, but graphology had found the explanation of the trouble. Both parents had become in­volved in many personal and social activities. They were providing a good residence, good furniture in the residence, but they were not making a home for the boy. They were busy attending social functions, bridge clubs, busi­ness conferences.

The lad had become a problem because he resented being shoved to one side. He thought his parents did not care about him, but about their social and business lives. He had come to hate and fear them, and was merely striking back. Fortunately the parents accepted the revelations made from their own writing, the boy admitted that was the way he felt. Today that family is well adjusted, the parents are happy and proud of their son, and he in turn is making good and is fond of his parents, whom he now recog­nizes as something more than a source of money. He has found that they do love him, and he in turn is a wonderful son.