...involved in social welfare issues. In 1912 Congress established the Children's Bureau to study and report on "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people."26 The agency had no authority and an annual budget of only $25,640...

...relationship between child welfare and democracy. The bureau had the power to investigate and report on "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life," and its philosophy was rooted in middle-class notions of childhood 129 and family and concern with democracy...

...1909, the US Children's Bureau (CB) was created in 1912. Its mission was to investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of people. To a large extent, the CB could be considered the mother of public health...

...federal agency in the world that concerned itself solely with children. Charged by Congress to report "on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people," the agency received only a small initial appropriation of $25,640....

...children, none has assumed the responsibility, mandated by the Children's Bureau Act of 1912, "to report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." Julia Lathrop wisely continued to interpret the reporting function...

...William Howard Taft created a federal Children's Bureau and charged it with investigating and reporting on "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of people."17 The Bureaus first assignment was to study why so many American infants...

...material. CHILD WELFARE INVESTIGATION Mr. SHREVE. The next item is : To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, including not to exceed $125,000 for personal services...

...this Department. The functions of the new bureau as recited in the law are to investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, the...

...CHILDREN'S BUREAU Under the act of 1912 the Children's Bureau is directed to investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life. Under title V of the Social Security Act it administers grants-ln-ald to State agencies. These grant...

...to he known as "The Children's Bureau." The work of this bureau shall be "to investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life: especially to investigate the question of infant mortality, and the birth rate; physical degeneracy;...