 | Robyn Muncy - History - 1994 - 240 pages
...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...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,... | |
 | Christopher Jencks, Paul E. Peterson - Social Science - 2001 - 508 pages
...stigmatized (as mothers' pensions unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...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... | |
 | Robert Hamlett Bremner - History - 409 pages
...to Congress urging favorable action on the measure. The functions proposed for the new bureau were to . . . investigate and report . . . upon all matters...welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and . . . especially . . . the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage,... | |
 | Donald F. Kettl - Business & Economics - 2011 - 236 pages
...stigmatized (as mothers' pensions unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...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... | |
 | Noralee Frankel - Social Science - 1991 - 212 pages
...of Commerce and Labor, the Children's Bureau was originally conceived as a research agency designed to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The law specifically mentioned infant mortality, juvenile delinquency, "dangerous occupations,"... | |
 | Molly Ladd-Taylor - History - 1995 - 228 pages
...Department of Commerce and Labor, the Children's Bureau was conceived as a research agency designed to "investigate and report , . . upon all matters...welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The law specifically mentioned infant mortality, employment, juvenile courts, "dangerous... | |
 | Sharon Lynn Kagan, Peter Neville - Political Science - 1993 - 246 pages
...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"... | |
 | Theda Skocpol - Political Science - 1995 - 338 pages
...stigmatized (as mothers' pensions unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1912 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...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... | |
 | Theda Skocpol - Political Science - 1995 - 740 pages
...welfare advocates succeeded in establishing the Children's Bureau as a federal agency grandly charged to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people."4 Although the Children's Bureau started with a paltry budget of $25,64o and a tiny staff... | |
 | Edward D. Berkowitz - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 426 pages
...health, and crippled children's services. These programs responded to the bureau's original broad mandate "to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life." Inevitably, however, the agency had faced a series of readjustments as the federal government expanded... | |
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Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people... 
