A Right to Childhood by Kriste Lindenmeyer

A Right to Childhood 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 Bureau and the first in-depth         examination of federal child welfare policy from the perspective of that         agency. Its goal was to promote "a right to childhood," and         Kriste Lindenmeyer unflinchingly examines the successes--and the failures--of         the Bureau. She analyzes infant and maternal mortality, the promotion         of child health care, child labor reform, and the protection of children         with "special needs" from the Bureau's inception through the         Depression, and through all the legislation that impacted on its work         for children. The meaningful accomplishments and the demise of the Children's         Bureau have much to tell parents, politicians, and policy-makers everywhere.

Kriste Lindenmeyer teaches history at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, she has also written A Right to Childhood and edited Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Lives and Politics of Progress. She lives in Owings Mills, Maryland.

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ISBN 13	9780252065774
ISBN 10	0252065778
Titel	A Right to Childhood
Autor	Kriste Lindenmeyer
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1997-04-01
Seitenanzahl	384
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.