 | Kriste Lindenmeyer - 1997 - 388 էջ
...Alexander McKelway.53 The final act mandated that the Children's Bureau "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." Thus, it closely followed the language of the first bill written by Kelley, Wald, Addams, and Lindsay... | |
 | 1975 - 532 էջ
...affecting children. The federal law establishing the Children's Bureau charged it to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people . . ." Questions which the Act directed the Bureau to investigate included "dangerous occupations"... | |
 | Walter I. Trattner - 2007 - 469 էջ
...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.) Charged with the duty of investigating and reporting upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people," die bureau had no administrative power, nor was it to perform any services, strictly speaking. Rather,... | |
 | Jack P. Shonkoff, Samuel J. Meisels - 2000 - 764 էջ
...Congress established a Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor "to investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people" (quoted in Lesser, 1985, p. 591). In its first annual report, the Bureau acknowledged its responsibility... | |
 | Theodore J. Stein - 2001 - 536 էջ
...of Health and Human Services. The bureau's mandate was straightforward: “To investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children...and child life among all classes of our people.” Under the stewardship ofJulia Lathrop, who headed the bureau from its inception until 1921, the bureau... | |
 | Duncan Lindsey - 2004 - 476 էջ
...Children's Bureau — The Beginning of a System [The purpose of the Bureau was to investigate and report] upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people. [It was charged to investigate] infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion,... | |
 | Deborah E. Ward - 2009 - 208 էջ
...with the first mothers' pension laws. Congress mandated that the bureau "investigate and report. . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children...and child life among all classes of our people."' 2 One of the bureau's primary responsibilities had been to research and conduct field studies of all... | |
 | John E. B. Myers - 2006 - 320 էջ
...William Howard Taft on April 9, 1912. The law stated the bureau's duties: "Investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children...and child life among all classes of our people, and . . . especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile... | |
 | Kimberley S. Johnson - 2007 - 252 էջ
...legislative struggle was the creation of a bureau with the charge "to investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The legislation also enumerated the number (fifteen) and the salaries of the Bureau's staff, and forbade... | |
 | Rima Dombrow Apple - 2006 - 226 էջ
...Finally, in 1912, the US Children's Bureau was established with a mandate to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." Note, the agency was to investigate and report, not treat; the Bureau could not deliver medical care.... | |
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The said bureau shall investigate and report to said department upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate,... 
