 | 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 occupations,"... | |
 | 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," "accidents... | |
 | 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" (Steiner 1976,... | |
 | Ruth Barnes Moynihan, Cynthia Eagle Russett, Laurie Crumpacker - History - 1993 - 460 pages
...concerned about eradicating boll weevils than about reducing infant mortality. With a mandate to monitor "the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people," the Children's Bureau began its work in 1912. under the strong leadership of a former Hull House resident,... | |
 | Theda Skocpol - Political Science - 1995 - 338 pages
...unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1912 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 across... | |
 | Theda Skocpol - Political Science - 1995 - 740 pages
...establishing the Children's Bureau as a federal agency grandly charged to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the 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 of... | |
 | Child care - 1975 - 532 pages
...affecting children. The federal law establishing the Children's Bureau charged it to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people . . ." Questions which the Act directed the Bureau to investigate included "dangerous occupations"... | |
 | Kriste Lindenmeyer - History - 1997 - 388 pages
...Alexander McKelway.53 The final act mandated that the Children's Bureau "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." Thus, it closely followed the language of the first bill written by Kelley, Wald, Addams, and Lindsay... | |
 | Ralph LaRossa - Family & Relationships - 1997 - 312 pages
...under the Department of Labor, the Children's Bureau was mandated to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." '" From 1912 to 1929, the Children's Bureau probably did more than any other organization in the country... | |
 | Walter I. Trattner - History - 2007 - 469 pages
...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.) Charged with the duty of investigating and reporting upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people," die bureau had no administrative power, nor was it to perform any services, strictly speaking. Rather,... | |
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The act directed the bureau to investigate and report upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people... 
