A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46University of Illinois Press, 1997 - 368 lappuses Warring factions in the United States like to use children as weapons for their political agendas as Americans try to determine the role--if any--of the federal government in the lives of children. But what is the history of child welfare policy in the United States? What can we learn from the efforts to found the U.S. Children's bureau in 1903 and its eventual dismemberment in 1946? This is the first history of the Children's Bureau and the first in-depth examination of federal child welfare policy from the perspective of that agency. Its goal was to promote "a right to childhood," and Kriste Lindenmeyer unflinchingly examines the successes--and the failures--of the Bureau. She analyzes infant and maternal mortality, the promotion of child health care, child labor reform, and the protection of children with "special needs" from the Bureau's inception through the Depression, and through all the legislation that impacted on its work for children. The meaningful accomplishments and the demise of the Children's Bureau have much to tell parents, politicians, and policy-makers everywhere. |
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Introduction | 1 |
The Origins of a Federal Bureau for Children 19001912 | 9 |
The Bureau Goes to Work 191213 | 30 |
Expanding the Bureau through a Blueprint for Maternal and Child Health 191420 | 52 |
Saving Mothers and Babies Designing and Implementing a National Maternity and Infancy Act 191830 | 76 |
The Childrens Bureau and Child Labor Reform 191232 | 108 |
When Families Fail Defining Social Policy for Children with Special Needs 191230 | 139 |
A Policy for Security The Childrens Bureau and the Great Depression 192939 | 163 |
Children in a Democracy The Childrens Bureau and World War II 194046 | 203 |
The Childrens Bureau and A Right to Childhood | 249 |
Notes | 263 |
Selected Bibliography | 323 |
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A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46 Kriste Lindenmeyer Ierobežota priekšskatīšana - 1997 |
A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46 Kriste Lindenmeyer Priekšskatījums nav pieejams - 1997 |
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