...Any person, above the age of twenty-one years, who, being possessed of sufficient means, unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his parent, whether father or mother, residing in this commonwealth, when such parent through misfortune...

...General Laws) : — Any person, over twenty-one, who, being possessed of sufficient means, unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his parent, whether father or mother, residing in the commonwealth, when such parent through misfortune...

...either of them, without making reasonable provision for their support, and any husband who unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife or minor child, and any husband who abandons or leaves his wife or minor child in danger of becoming...

...was designed and enacted to remedy, if possible, this evil. By its provisions a husband, who deserts, neglects, or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife, minor child or children, is deemed guilty of a crime, and, if he goes into another state, can be arrested...

...man shall not be allowed to shift the burden of supporting his wife and children upon others ander no obligation to bear it and possibly upon the state...by sympathizing relatives, friends, or strangers, eo that she does not In fact suffer from the privation. He Is guilty If he leaves her in such circumstances...

...Cent. Dig. § 1111 ; Dec. Dig. § 314.*] 4. HUSBAND AND WrFE (§ 304*)— PROSECUTION FOB NONSUPPOBT. Whenever a husband, without just cause, neglects or...sympathizing relatives, friends, or strangers, so that ehe does not in fact suffer from the privation. He is guilty if he leaves her in such circumstances...

...STATUTE. The Desertion Act (Laws 1911, c. 163), which provides for the punishment of a husband who, without just cause, neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife in destitute or necessitous circumstances, is not a mere poor law, and was not designed merely to redress...

...either of them without making reasonable provision for their support, and any husband who unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife or minor child or children, or abandons or leaves them or any or either of them in danger of becoming...

...becoming a burden upon the public, and any parent, whether father or mother, who deserts or wilfully neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his or her child or children under the age of sixteen, or whose minor child by reason of the neglect, cruelty,...

...the violation of which the defendant has been convicted provides, that "any husband who unreasonably neglects or refuses to provide for the support and maintenance of his wife or minor child or children . . . shall be guilty of a crime, and on conviction thereof shall be punished...