 | Child welfare - 1947 - 396 pages
...Conference on Dependent Children, in 1909, from which came the widely quoted statement, "Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization....deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons." It took our Federal Government more than a quarter of a century to implement this principle through... | |
 | Child welfare - 1949 - 382 pages
...ones. The conference declared that "Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. * * * Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons." The conference further recommended that if care outside the home is necessary for a normal child, he... | |
 | Child welfare - 1951 - 340 pages
...from Home life, said the first White House Conference, is the highest and finest product of lization. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling real families disrupted by death, divorce or separation. As early as 1945 we began to see a change... | |
 | Child welfare - 1954 - 830 pages
..."Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. It is the great molding force of mind and character. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons." It was 2 years, however, before the first mother's pension law was actually passed. Illinois led the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Juvenile delinquency - 1955 - 448 pages
...Conference in 1909 a statement was made which still holds as a basis of our belief today : Homelife is the highest and finest product of civilization....deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons. Perhaps the most outstanding contrast between today and yesterday in child care is the current conviction... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Juvenile delinquency - 1955 - 444 pages
...Conference in 1909 a statement was made which still holds as a basis of our belief today : Homelife is the highest and finest product of civilization....force of mind and of character. Children should not he deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons. Perhaps the most outstanding contrast between... | |
 | Wisconsin. Attorney General's Office - Attorneys general's opinions - 1915 - 1192 pages
...The Care of Dependent Children held at the White House in Washington, DC, January, 1909: "Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. It is the great moulding force of mind and character. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling... | |
 | Barbara J. Nelson - Family & Relationships - 1984 - 184 pages
...Children, which disavowed family breakup because of poverty. The Report of the Conference was quite clear: "Children of parents of worthy character, suffering from temporary misfortune, and children of reasonable and efficient mothers, who are without the support of normal breadwinners, should as a rule... | |
 | Joan Laird, Ann Hartman - Political Science - 1985 - 904 pages
...for permanent homes for children. The Conference policy recommendation stated that: "Home life ... is the highest and finest product of civilization. It is the great molding force of mind and character. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons." (White... | |
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Home life is the highest and finest product of civilization. It is the great molding force of mind and character. Children should not be deprived of it except for urgent and compelling reasons. 
