A Right to Childhood – The U.S. Children`s Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912–46

A Right to ChildhoodThe U.S. Children's Bureau and Child Welfare, 1912-46\nAuthor(s): Kriste Lindenmeyer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Illinois Press, United States\nImprint: University of Illinois Press\nISBN-13: 9780252065774, 978-0252065774\nSynopsis\n Warring factions in the United States like to use children as weapons\nfor their political agendas as Americans try to determine the role--if\nany--of the federal government in the lives of children. But what is the\nhistory of child welfare policy in the United States? What can we learn\nfrom the efforts to found the [url] Children's bureau in 1903 and its eventual\ndismemberment in 1946?\nThis is the first history of the Children's Bureau and the first in-depth\nexamination of federal child welfare policy from the perspective of that\nagency. Its goal was to promote \""a right to childhood,\"" and\nKriste Lindenmeyer unflinchingly examines the successes--and the failures--of\nthe Bureau. She analyzes infant and matern.