Author: United States. Children's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
The Children's Bureau, Documentary Sources from the National Archives
Author: United States. Children's BureauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Child welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
A History of Child Welfare
Author: Lisa Merkel-HolguinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351315900
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
As we approach the year 2000, infant mortality rates, child placement dilemmas, and appropriate socialization of children continue to challenge the field of child welfare. It is thus especially significant to reflect on the history of child welfare. The carefully selected topics explored in this volume underscore the importance of recovering past events and themes still relevant. It is the aim of this volume to illumine current issues by a review of past struggles and problems. A History of Child Welfare offers many examples of practices that have direct import for those who struggle to support children. Who is not bothered by what seem to be increasing acts of violence by children against children? The role of hidden cruelty to children in perpetuating violence is illuminated by studying the past. Historians and social researchers have gone far in examining the family, and by implication, their revelations greatly increase society's complex responses to children over time from early assumptions that children were little more than miniature adults to the discovery of childhood as a special developmental period. At the start of this century women still did not have universal suffrage and brutal child labor was not unusual. Harsh legal codes separating the races were widespread, and those bent on improving the lot of children knew that reform meant commitment to an uphill struggle. By the end of the century, much has changed: child labor, while still present, has been outlawed in most industries, women vote and hold many high offices; and de jure racial segregation is largely a memory. Yet the state of children remains precarious, with poverty a persistent theme throughout the century. The fifteen articles in this volume cover a wide range of social conditions, public policies, and approaches to problem solving. Though history does not repeat itself precisely, problems, controversies about solutions, and certain themes do. A History of Child Welfare takes up social and economic conditions that correlate with increasing rates of child abuse and neglect, and an increasing number of children in out-of-home care. This volume distinguishes approaches that have been useful from those that have failed. In this way, these serious reflections help build on past successes and avoid previous errors.
Focus on the Center for Research Libraries
Author: Center for Research Libraries (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library cooperation
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Prologue
Author: Guide to the Records in the National Archives
Author: National Archives (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Annual Report on the National Archives and Records Service from the Annual Report of the Administrator of General Services for the Year Ending ...
Author: United States. National Archives and Records ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
Handbook of the Center for Research Libraries
Author: Center for Research Libraries (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliographical centers
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Materials in the National Archives Relating to World War II.
Author: National Archives (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archival resources
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Annual Report - National Historical Publications and Records Commission
Author: United States. National Historical Publications and Records CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
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