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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... protect those who held legal claim to settle- ment in particular localities . They offered protection against strangers who threat- ened the stability — namely , the morality and physical safety — of a society singularly concerned with ...
... protection of family life against the onslaughts of a hostile environment . Miss Richmond referred to the family as " the great social unit , the fundamental social fact . " She demanded changes in agency practices , action in regard to ...
... Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and of a like provision of the Texas Constitution . Tex . Const . , Art . 1 , § 3a . Those contentions were rejected . The peti- tioners , having entered a plea of nolo contendere , were ...