Federal Safeguards of Child Welfare : Child Welfare Has Become a World Concern—What is the Share of the United States ?

1925 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-107
Author(s):  
Julia Lathrop
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
The United States

Research to Consider While Effectively Re-Designing Child Welfare Services

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973152110500
Author(s):  
Richard P. Barth ◽  
Jill Duerr Berrick ◽  
Antonio R. Garcia ◽  
Brett Drake ◽  
Melissa Jonson-Reid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Child Welfare Services ◽  
Children And Families ◽  
Vulnerable Children ◽  
Welfare Services ◽  
New Policies

An intense appetite for reforming and transforming child welfare services in the United States is yielding many new initiatives. Vulnerable children and families who become involved with child welfare clearly deserve higher quality and more effective services. New policies, programs, and practices should be built on sound evidence. Reforms based on misunderstandings about what the current data show may ultimately harm families. This review highlights 10 commonly held misconceptions which we assert are inconsistent with the best available contemporary evidence. Implications for better alignment of evidence and reform are discussed.

Lenroot, Katharine Fredrica

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maryann Syers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Juvenile Delinquency ◽  
Child Labor ◽  
The United States ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Child Labor Laws ◽  
The U.S

Katharine Fredrica Lenroot (1891–1982), praised for her contributions to child welfare, juvenile delinquency, and child labor laws, worked at the U.S. Children's Bureau for 37 years. She became its chief in 1934 and represented the United States at UNICEF.

The Rural Ideal

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Birk
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
The United States ◽  
Child Welfare Workers ◽  
Dependent Children ◽  
Farm Life ◽  
American Mythology ◽  
Welfare Workers ◽  
The Prestige ◽  
The Way

This chapter examines how the rural ideal, or the beliefs about the prestige of farm homes and families, developed in the United States and how it in turn influenced the placement of dependent children. It first considers how the American mythology that glorified agriculturalists gave rise to the notion that any farm was better for a child than an institution. It then shows how the Midwest came to be seen as a popular place for farm placements onto farms, as well as the best representation of the farm environment that reformers and placers sought to give children. It also explores how the reliance on the Midwest for placement homes began and paved the way for children to be sent to farms in need of laborers. Finally, it discusses the host of problems confronting farming in the Midwest that nonetheless did not deter child welfare workers from believing that farm life still represented the American ideal.

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