 | Celia Winkler - Family & Relationships - 2002 - 310 pages
...social work management, in line, perhaps, with the common concern that homes be "efficient and moral." Children of parents of worthy character, suffering...maintain suitable homes for the rearing of the children. . . . Except in unusual circumstances, the home should not be broken up for reasons of poverty, but... | |
 | Joan Lombardi - Education - 2008 - 254 pages
...reasonably efficient and deserving mothers who are without the support of the normal breadwinners, should as a rule be kept with their parents, such aid being given as necessary to maintain suitable homes for the rearing of children.5 The 1909 conference helped promote... | |
 | Stephen O'Connor - Family & Relationships - 2004 - 388 pages
..."Children of parents of worthy character, suffering from temporary misfortune, and children of reasonable efficient and deserving mothers who are without the...necessary to maintain suitable homes for the rearing of children."19 Although the report did recommend family foster care as the best alternative for normal,... | |
 | Deborah E. Ward - Political Science - 2009 - 208 pages
...pension laws that were enacted from 1911 to 1932. 4 Mothers' Pension Legislation Exclusion by Statute Children of parents of worthy character, suffering...necessary to maintain suitable homes for the rearing of children. —White House Conference on Children, 1909' I would say that the immorality of the mother... | |
 | John E. B. Myers - Social Science - 2006 - 320 pages
...experts attending the 1909 White House Conference endorsed mothers' pensions. The conferees wrote, "Children of parents of worthy character, suffering...to maintain suitable homes for the rearing of the children."24 The moral fitness requirement reflected the time-honored belief that relief should be... | |
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Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons. Children of parents of worthy character, suffering from temporary misfortune, and children of reasonably efficient and deserving mothers who are without the support of the... 
