Download or read book Foster Home Care for Dependent Children Classic Reprint written by United States Department of Labor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Foster-Home Care for Dependent Children The first case mentioned in the Bible is that of Abraham, who adopted his nephew, Lot. The second case is that of Moses, who was adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The A B C of Foster Family Care for Children Classic Reprint written by Blanche J. Paget and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-24 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The A B C of Foster-Family Care for Children The law classifies children who come under its protection. One whose family can not support him or who has lost his family is dependent. If his parents willfully fail to provide for him or treat him cruelly, he is neglected. If in response to a bad situation he rebels or breaks some law, he is delinquent. In reality these classifications are vague and overlapping. As definitions they are both inaccurate and dangerous. Labels have a way of sticking, and if there is one thing that needs emphasis more than another it is that situa tions and persons are too complex to be readily explained or precisely classified. There is a common impression that the majority of de pendent children are orphans, but at present the full orphan is rare in social work. The foundling with no known relatives is equally unusual, and cases of abandonment by parents of children not already in the care of some agency are not common. Parents SO immoral or incompetent that they should under no circumstances care for their children are the exception. Nor would the unmarried mother swell very largely the number of dependent children if she could always obtain adequate support for her child without parting with him. An inspection of applications made to almost any children's agency would Show a number of children who must be provided for temporarily, and a few for whom provision must be permanent because of the physical or mental disability of parents. Many applications would be the result of poverty, usually complicated by sickness and unemployment. A surprising number would be the direct or indirect outcome of the separation of parents or of the desertion of one parent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Child in the Foster Home Vol 1 Classic Reprint written by Sophie Van Senden Theis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-09 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Child in the Foster Home, Vol. 1 This monograph is an attempt to give an honest account of the practical experiences of an actual agency in a limited area of the whole child welfare field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Work of Child Placing Agencies written by Katharine Potter Hewins and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Work of Child-Placing Agencies: Part I. A Social Study of Ten Agencies Caring for Dependent Children; Part II. Health Supervision of Children Placed in Foster Homes Sir: There Is transmitted herewith a report on the work of child placing agencies, which includes ih Part I a social study of 10 agenc1es caring for dependent children and In Part II a study of the health supervision of children placed 111 foster homes. The field work for the social study of the child placing agencies was done by L. Josephine Webster and Katharine P. Hewins during the period from November, 1922, to April, 1923. Miss Hewins wrote the general section Of Part I and the individual descriptions of the three Massachusetts agencies; Miss Webster wrote the descriptions of the other seven agencies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Child in the Foster Home written by Sophie van Senden Theis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-16 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Child in the Foster Home, Vol. 1 This monograph is an attempt to give an honest account of the practical experiences of an actual agency in a limited area of the whole child welfare field. It describes failures as well as successes. It does not attempt to discuss general or ideal standards of child welfare. So far as standards are discussed at all the purpose is primarily to show those held by the State Charities Aid Association in the state of New York at the present time. In the practical application of these standards a tendency to lower them is shown in particular instances due to a lack of public or private funds and agencies to provide boarding family care whenever this is best for the child. The publishers believe that there has been a gain to the earnest student of the problems of free foster home care of children because the writers of this monograph have had an eye single to a literal account of and frank comment upon their own experiences under actual conditions in New York state. However, these earnest students should recognize, as the writers and publishers of this monograph clearly do, that other records and discussions of experience are needed to give the present monograph true community perspective. Especially is there further need of the true record of wider experiences for two purposes: first, to make clear the principles which should determine the relationship of both agency and free foster home to each other and to the child; second, to show how far three other forms of care, namely, adequate assistance to all mothers who could thus care for their own children, the boarding family home whenever best for the child, and the wise development of what the English call the "scattered home," can and should change the ratios of dependent children now cared for in institutions and in free family homes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Care of the Dependent Child in the Foster Home written by Frances Berkowitz and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children in Foster Homes Vol 16 written by Marie Skodak and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Children in Foster Homes, Vol. 16: A Study of Mental Development Dr. Skodak's study is part of an extensive Station research program devoted to inquiries into the mental development of children. It is of particular interest as a complement to the recently published monograph A Study of Environmental Stimulation: An Orphanage Preschool Project by Skeels, Updegraff, Wellman and Williams. The present study traces in some detail the mental growth of a large group of children placed early in foster homes, relating the work not only to other studies in the Station but to the publications of Burks, Freeman, Jones and Leahy. In general the IQ of a foster child during these preschool years is related not to the genetic constitution as derived from true mother and true father, but to the quality of the home in which he now lives. Of one thing we can be reasonably sure: the older idea that a gain or loss of as much as 20 IQ points must be exceedingly rare is definitely not valid for these young children. All measures of correlation and central tendency in this and allied Station studies demonstrate that, for young children subjected to demonstrably changed environments, substantial shifts are the rule rather than the exception. Nor can this be taken as a measure of the unreliability or futility of intelligence testing. Rather, to a significant extent (lying beyond the probable errors of measurement), such shifting indicates real losses and gains in the relative mental standing of the children involved. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Lost Children of Wilder written by Nina Bernstein and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of a 1973 case in which thirteen-year-old Shirley Wilder, an abused runaway, became the focus of a class-action lawsuit in regard to the inequities of New York City's foster care system provides a full-history of the case and the long-term consequences of foster care for Shirley, her son Lamont, and Lamont's son, all victims of the system. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
Download or read book For Your Own Good written by Doris Sanford and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Care of Strangers written by D. Alexander Holiday and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In three previous books, through a selection of prose poems, the author shared bits and pieces of a life, one comprised of complete abandonment by a mother and the disconnected roles played by extended family members, a life that eventually led to being placed in foster care. Now, for the first time, with In the Care of Strangers, he tells the entire story of what such a life was actually like. In this five-part memoir, dependent on the seven deadly sins, the author tries to reconstruct a painful journey of coming of age under the literal care of strangers and the individuals that made up the foster homes and hospitals that would help to shape a young man's life, certainly a difficult life, riddled with abuse from the start (Malice) and ending with greed and envy in a fourth and final home. He finds and develops pride in himself while recuperating from a paralysis. How this young man attempts to survive the experiences of foster care while also having to contend with a disability, and still managing to try to simply achieve graduation from high school, with a goal toward college, is a testament to a human spirit beyond measure. This riveting story, told through an innocent, almost childlike voice of a boy shocked into care, then as an older man who has come to terms with his situation (The Unclaimed), and finally through the poetry, should be taken as an inspiration for many.
Download or read book The Visit written by S. Latisha Herbert and published by CWLA Press (Child Welfare League of America). This book was released on 1991 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A description of a visit of a child in foster care with her other siblings in separate foster homes.
Download or read book Foster Home Care for Emotionally Disturbed Children written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Love in Action written by Weston Cosby Reed and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Love in Action: The Story of the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina It is agreed by all leading welfare authorities that children's homes such as ours are absolutely essential in this generation. Hence, an ever-increasing support by our great denomination 1s a must if we are to continue to blaze trails m this important phase of Christian service. Keep in mind that your children's homes were first in Mother's Aid in 1920: four years later the North Carolina Legislature appropriated for this worthy cause. Then a few years later the Federal government entered this field of service on a matching basis with the states and called it Aid to Dependent Children, or This action relieved the Baptists of the major burden of Mother's Aid. But there are still certain cases that cannot meet government standards. We now serve with financial aid an average of about sixty children each year while they continue to live with their own mothers. We were also among the first of the. Children's institutions to adopt the Foster Home Program, and we had the first trained social worker in any of the Southern child care agencies. In fact we had one of the first trained social workers in North Carolina. She entered this field in 1923 to supervise the Mother's Aid Program. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Little Strangers written by Claudia Nelson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003-05-13 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Massachusetts passed America's first comprehensive adoption law in 1851, the usual motive for taking in an unrelated child was presumed to be the need for cheap labor. But by 1929 -- the first year that every state had an adoption law -- the adoptee's main function was seen as emotional. Little Strangers examines the representations of adoption and foster care produced over the intervening years. Claudia Nelson argues that adoption texts reflect changing attitudes toward many important social issues, including immigration and poverty, heredity and environment, individuality and citizenship, gender, and the family. She examines orphan fiction for children, magazine stories and articles, legal writings, social work conference proceedings, and discussions of heredity and child psychology. Nelson's ambitious scope provides for an analysis of the extent to which specialist and mainstream adoption discourse overlapped, as well as the ways in which adoption and foster care had captivated the public imagination.
Download or read book Murphy s Three Homes written by Jan Levinson Gilman and published by Magination Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dog describes the emotional ups and downs of being in multiple foster homes and living in unfamiliar surroundings. Includes note to parents.
Download or read book Ellen Foster written by Kaye Gibbons and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
Download or read book Child Protection in America written by John E. B. Myers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Child abuse and neglect are intractable problems exacting a terrible toll on children and rending the very fabric of our society. What can be done to reduce the suffering? If there were simple solutions to abuse and neglect they would have been discovered long ago. There are no easy answers, but in this vivid history of child protection in America, John E.B. Myers introduces realistic policies that will reduce maltreatment and strengthen the system that protects our children. Before it is possible to design viable improvements in today's system, it is necessary to understand how it evolved. The sweeping, beautifully written account of child protection in America traces its growth from colonial days to the present--from the rise and gradual disappearance of orphanages, the growth of foster care, the birth of organized child protection in 1874, and the rise of private societies to prevent cruelty, to the twentieth-century transition to government-operated child protection. Myers goes on to describe the principal causes of child maltreatment, including intergenerational transmission of violence, poverty, substance abuse, cultural violence, excessive corporal punishment, sexual deviance, evolution, mental illness, and domestic violence. Once the causes of maltreatment are clear, it is possible to create solutions. Some of the proposals outlined have been in play for more than a century, while others are new. Policies to combat poverty, expand nurse home visiting programs, increase access to day care, strengthen a sense of community, outlaw corporal punishment, rethink our attitude toward alcohol, and lower the toxicity in popular culture are rooted in a deep understanding of the cycle of violence and challenge traditional ways of thinking. Since it will never be possible to prevent all maltreatment, it is critical to strengthen the existing child protection system. Attainable reforms such as dealing with the lingering effects of racism in the child welfare, reworking funding mechanisms, refocusing leadership, creating a less adversarial system, strengthening foster care, and reinventing the juvenile court point to flaws in our system but demonstrate that progress is possible. This provocative book will challenge all those concerned with children's welfare to move toward real solutions that will make life better for America's most vulnerable children.
