| 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 earliest... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| Robert Hamlett Bremner - History - 364 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| Noralee Frankel - Social Science - 1991 - 212 pages
...Children's Bureau was originally conceived as a research agency designed to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the 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
...the Children's Bureau was conceived as a research agency designed to "investigate and report , . . upon all matters pertaining to the 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"... | |
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