Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need"Social Welfare: A History of the American Response to Need, Sixth Edition" describes and analyzes the ideas that have shaped the history of social welfare from the Colonial Period to the present day. Using original documents from each respective period through the current Bush Administration, this classic text examines the history of events and ideas that have shaped American social welfare policy. Coverage of economic developments, the impact of voluntarism, the impact of privatization helps students to understand the context of social welfare movements and policies, while material on trends in the justice system include the immigration debate New To This Edition
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... mothers . There was an underlying conflict , too , posed by the question of whether mothers should work at all . Before the enact- ment of the first mother's pension in 1911 , while the possibility of such pensions was still being ...
... mothers and makers of homes out of the schools knowing nothing of that which they should know when they shall have homes of their own , into institutions , commercial and otherwise , which , as Mr. Lee has said , “ diseducate " the ...
... mothers . Six- teen percent of the reporting states had not accepted any children of unwed mothers . The low coverage rate reflects the unwillingness to move from the old Moth- ers ' Aid to the less restrictive coverage . While neither ...