| L.M. Kopelman, J.C. Moskop - 2007 - 344 páginas
...[54]. In the early part of the twentieth century, the constitutional authority establishing a bureau "to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children" was fervently argued. Today we debate the efficacy of cutting funds for programs and the... | |
| James K. Whittaker - 228 páginas
...the federal government's responsibility for dependent children; and the mandate given to the Bureau to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...children and child life among all classes of our people . . ." suggested a public responsibility to monitor the well-being of all children, not just those... | |
| Robyn Muncy - 1994 - 240 páginas
...Children's Bureau during the reforming fervor of 1912. The new agency received a broad mandate, which was to "investigate and report upon all matters pertaining...children and child life among all classes of our people." Among the issues suggested for study were "infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts,... | |
| Christopher Jencks, Paul E. Peterson - 2001 - 508 páginas
...stigmatized (as mothers' pensions unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...of children and child life among all classes of our people."35 The bureau's chief, Julia Lathrop, mobilized women's associations and reform groups across... | |
| Robert Hamlett Bremner - 364 páginas
...to Congress urging favorable action on the measure. The functions proposed for the new bureau were to . . . investigate and report . . . upon all matters...and child life among all classes of our people, and . . . especially . . . the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts,... | |
| Donald F. Kettl - 2011 - 236 páginas
...stigmatized (as mothers' pensions unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...children and child life among all classes of our people." 3S The bureau's chief, Julia Lathrop, mobilized women's associations and reform groups across the nation... | |
| Noralee Frankel - 1991 - 212 páginas
...of Commerce and Labor, the Children's Bureau was originally conceived as a research agency designed to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...children and child life among all classes of our people." The law specifically mentioned infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, "dangerous occupations," "accidents... | |
| Molly Ladd-Taylor - 1995 - 228 páginas
...Department of Commerce and Labor, the Children's Bureau was conceived as a research agency designed to "investigate and report , . . upon all matters...children and child life among all classes of our people." The law specifically mentioned infant mortality, employment, juvenile courts, "dangerous occupations,"... | |
| Sharon Lynn Kagan, Peter Neville - 1993 - 246 páginas
...and education programs. The Children's Bureau, initially created to "investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people" (Bremner 1970, p. 774), was perceived as "dinky, depressed, uninspired and uninspiring" (Steiner 1976,... | |
| Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker - 1993 - 460 páginas
...concerned about eradicating boll weevils than about reducing infant mortality. With a mandate to monitor "the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people," the Children's Bureau began its work in 1912. under the strong leadership of a former Hull House resident,... | |
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