Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Children's Charities, 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Subcommittee on Children and Youth
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Children's Charities, 1974
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 928
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Regulation
Author: Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Charities
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Resources in Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
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Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
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Category : Labor policy
Languages : en
Pages : 1474
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Raising the World
Author: Sara Fieldston
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674425529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
After World War II, American organizations launched efforts to improve the lives of foreign children, from war orphans in Europe and Japan to impoverished youth in the developing world. Providing material aid, education, and emotional support, these programs had a deep humanitarian underpinning. But they were also political projects. Sara Fieldston’s comprehensive account Raising the World shows that the influence of child welfare agencies around the globe contributed to the United States’ expanding hegemony. These organizations filtered American power through the prism of familial love and shaped perceptions of the United States as the benevolent parent in a family of nations. The American Friends Service Committee, Foster Parents’ Plan, and Christian Children’s Fund, among others, sent experts abroad to build nursery schools and orphanages and to instruct parents in modern theories of child rearing and personality development. Back home, thousands of others “sponsored” overseas children by sending money and exchanging often-intimate letters. Although driven by sincere impulses and sometimes fostering durable friendships, such efforts doubled as a form of social engineering. Americans believed that child rearing could prevent the rise of future dictators, curb the appeal of communism, and facilitate economic development around the world. By the 1970s, child welfare agencies had to adjust to a new world in which American power was increasingly suspect. But even as volunteers reconsidered the project of reshaping foreign societies, a perceived universality of children’s needs continued to justify intervention by Americans into young lives across the globe.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674425529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
After World War II, American organizations launched efforts to improve the lives of foreign children, from war orphans in Europe and Japan to impoverished youth in the developing world. Providing material aid, education, and emotional support, these programs had a deep humanitarian underpinning. But they were also political projects. Sara Fieldston’s comprehensive account Raising the World shows that the influence of child welfare agencies around the globe contributed to the United States’ expanding hegemony. These organizations filtered American power through the prism of familial love and shaped perceptions of the United States as the benevolent parent in a family of nations. The American Friends Service Committee, Foster Parents’ Plan, and Christian Children’s Fund, among others, sent experts abroad to build nursery schools and orphanages and to instruct parents in modern theories of child rearing and personality development. Back home, thousands of others “sponsored” overseas children by sending money and exchanging often-intimate letters. Although driven by sincere impulses and sometimes fostering durable friendships, such efforts doubled as a form of social engineering. Americans believed that child rearing could prevent the rise of future dictators, curb the appeal of communism, and facilitate economic development around the world. By the 1970s, child welfare agencies had to adjust to a new world in which American power was increasingly suspect. But even as volunteers reconsidered the project of reshaping foreign societies, a perceived universality of children’s needs continued to justify intervention by Americans into young lives across the globe.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications, Cumulative Index
Author: United States. Superintendent of Documents
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
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Orphan Trains
Author: Marylin Irvin Holt
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803235977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803235977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
"From 1850 to 1930 America witnessed a unique emigration and resettlement of at least 200,000 children and several thousand adults, primarily from the East Coast to the West. This 'placing out,' an attempt to find homes for the urban poor, was best known by the 'orphan trains' that carried the children. Holt carefully analyzes the system, initially instituted by the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, tracking its imitators as well as the reasons for its creation and demise. She captures the children's perspective with the judicious use of oral histories, institutional records, and newspaper accounts. This well-written volume sheds new light on the multifaceted experience of children's immigration, changing concepts of welfare, and Western expansion. It is good, scholarly social history."—Library Journal
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1814
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Research Papers: Taxes
Author: Commission on Private Philanthropy and Public Needs
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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