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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... "
The Development of National Administrative Organization in the United States - Page 404
by Lloyd Milton Short - 1923 - 514 pages
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Special Children-especial Risks: The Maltreatment of Children with Disabilities

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...
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Reaching High-Risk Families: Intensive Family Preservation in Human Services

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...
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Creating a Female Dominion in American Reform, 1890-1935

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,...
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The Urban Underclass

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...
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The Discovery of Poverty in the United States

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,...
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Sharing Power: Public Governance and Private Markets

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...
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Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era

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,"...
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Mother-Work: Women, Child Welfare, and the State, 1890-1930

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...
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Integrating Services for Children and Families: Understanding the Past to ...

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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Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies - United States - 1995 - 960 pages
...Children's Bureau shall . . . investigate and report to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage,...
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