ISBN: 9780548818862

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Child Welfare Problems. There are something like twelve thousand dependent children in Illinois which are cared for in children's homes, manual training and industrial schools, and in private homes where they are placed by child-helping agencies. The expense of maintaining these children is Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. Child Welfare Problems. There are something like twelve thousand dependent children in Illinois which are cared for in children's homes, manual training and industrial schools, and in private homes where they are placed by child-helping agencies. The expense of maintaining these children is well over a million dollars. In addition approximately one-half million dollars is expended in the various counties of the state in the form of mothers' pensions, providing partial support for a large number of children not included in the total given above. There are also many children cared for in institutions for the physically or mentally defective not included in this total. In this chapter we shall consider the question whether these wards of the state are being cared for properly, and whether the funds devoted to their care are wisely expended. We shall not discuss, however, the care of children that are mentally or physically defective, nor efforts to reduce infant mortality, although these undertakings come within the scope of child-helping activities broadly conceived. Inspection of Children's Homes. Up until two years ago the state was given authority only to supervise children's institutions which were in receipt of public funds, or to which dependent children were committed by the juvenile courts, although no association caring for dependent children could be incorporated until its purposes had been approved by the State Board of Administration, now the Department of PublicWelfare. At the 1919 session of the Legislature, however, an act was adopted bringing all boarding homes for children (with an exception noted later) under the supervision of the Department of Public Welfare, and authorizing that department to license and inspect such homes, and to re Books, , Social-legislation-in-Illinois-needs-and-opportunities-in-1921~~Seba-Eldridge, 999999999, Social Legislation in Illinois: Needs and Opportunities in 1921 (1921), Seba Eldridge, 054881886X, Kessinger Publishing Company, , , , , Kessinger Publishing Company<

ISBN: 9780548818862

Paperback, [PU: Kessinger Publishing], This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginal… Mehr…

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Internationaler Buchtitel. In englischer Sprache. Verlag: KESSINGER PUB CO, 112 Seiten, L=229mm, B=152mm, H=7mm, Gew.=177gr, Kartoniert/Broschiert