A Right to Childhood: The U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46

by Kriste Lindenmeyer

Warring factions in the United States like to use children as weapons
for their political agendas as Americans try to determine the role--if
any--of the federal government in the lives of children. But what is the
history of child welfare policy in the United States? What can we learn
from the efforts to found the U.S. Children's bureau in 1903 and its eventual
dismemberment in 1946?
This is the first history of the Children's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252065778
• ISBN13: 9780252065774
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"