 | L.M. Kopelman, J.C. Moskop - Medical - 2007 - 344 pages
...[54]. In the early part of the twentieth century, the constitutional authority establishing a bureau "to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children" was fervently argued. Today we debate the efficacy of cutting funds for programs and the... | |
 | James K. Whittaker - Social Science - 228 pages
...the federal government's responsibility for dependent children; and the mandate given to the Bureau to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people . . ." suggested a public responsibility to monitor the well-being... | |
 | Robyn Muncy - History - 1994 - 240 pages
...the Children's Bureau during the reforming fervor of 1912. The new agency received a broad mandate, which was to "investigate and report upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." Among the issues suggested for study were "infant mortality, the... | |
 | Christopher Jencks, Paul E. Peterson - Social Science - 2001 - 508 pages
...stigmatized (as mothers' pensions unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people."35 The bureau's chief, Julia Lathrop, mobilized women's associations... | |
 | Robert Hamlett Bremner - History - 409 pages
...to Congress urging favorable action on the measure. The functions proposed for the new bureau were to . . . investigate and report . . . upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and . . . especially . . . the questions of infant mortality, the... | |
 | Donald F. Kettl - Business & Economics - 2011 - 236 pages
...stigmatized (as mothers' pensions unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." 3S The bureau's chief, Julia Lathrop, mobilized women's associations... | |
 | Noralee Frankel - Social Science - 1991 - 212 pages
...of Commerce and Labor, the Children's Bureau was originally conceived as a research agency designed to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The law specifically mentioned infant mortality, juvenile delinquency,... | |
 | Molly Ladd-Taylor - History - 1995 - 228 pages
...Department of Commerce and Labor, the Children's Bureau was conceived as a research agency designed to "investigate and report , . . upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The law specifically mentioned infant mortality, employment, juvenile... | |
 | Edward D. Berkowitz - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 426 pages
...health, and crippled children's services. These programs responded to the bureau's original broad mandate "to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life." Inevitably, however, the agency had faced a series of readjustments as the federal government expanded... | |
 | Theda Skocpol - Political Science - 1995 - 740 pages
...welfare advocates succeeded in establishing the Children's Bureau as a federal agency grandly charged to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people."4 Although the Children's Bureau started with a paltry budget of $25,64o... | |
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Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people... 
