 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce - 1929 - 324 pages
...9, 1912 (see ch. 73, sec. 1, 37 US Stat. L. p. 79), contains the following statement in section 2 : The said bureau shall investigate and report to said...and child life among all classes of our people, and especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion,... | |
 | Barbara J. Nelson - Family & Relationships - 1984 - 184 pages
...— research, although the scope of acceptable research topics was, in principle, quite wide: "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes. ..." A small authorization and some statutory limitations on staff effectively restricted the scope... | |
 | Joan Laird, Ann Hartman - Political Science - 1985 - 904 pages
...federal bureau for children. The charge to the Bureau was broad, namely to "investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people" (Act Establishing the Children's Bureau, 1912). The first Chiefs of the Children's Bureau were Julia... | |
 | Barbara J. Nelson - Family & Relationships - 1984 - 184 pages
...matured into the law that established the Children's Bureau and charged it to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people."4 No matter that this sugary description reads remarkably like a passage in RL Duffus's equally... | |
 | Patrick E. Brookhouser, Karen J. Authier - Medical - 332 pages
...the United States Children's Bureau. This public agency was charged with investigating and reporting upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of people" (Childrens Bureau Act of 1912). Child labor and high rates of infant mortality were among its... | |
 | James K. Whittaker - Social Science - 228 pages
...responsibility for dependent children; and the mandate given to the Bureau to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of 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 - History - 1994 - 240 pages
...reforming fervor of 1912. The new agency received a broad mandate, which was to "investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of 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 - Social Science - 2001 - 508 pages
...unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare 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 - History - 409 pages
...on the measure. The functions proposed for the new bureau were to . . . investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children...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 - Business & Economics - 2011 - 236 pages
...unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of 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... | |
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The act directed the bureau to investigate and report upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people... 
