Puerto Ricans in a Child-Caring Institution: Statistical Analysis of 256 Active Cases From Point of Intake at the Saint Agatha Home for Dependent Children, Nanuet, New York, 1948-1857
Abstract
Childhood is a time of growing and becoming. Growth has a pattern. Each age has its particular needs and accomplishments. Each growing child has his own tempo, his own drives, his own capacities. These steps in the development of a healthy personality are not discrete or separate and cannot be isolated from one another. In our society the family is the basic social institution, and children have the best chance for a good start in life in a family with parents who are reasonably mature, healthy, and understanding of the children's needs. When we consider the steps to take in meeting the needs of children, we should never lose sight of the job that parents have in helping their children develop successfully. In our actions as a nation, state, or local communities in the broad field of social effort has a bearing on children, on their life in the family and in the community. This can be elaborated on by our interest in schools, in community institutions organized by citizen groups for their common social or spiritual interests, in foster homes, and in institutions for the group care of dependent, neglected or delinquent children. It might well be said that citizens who carry the ultimate responsibility for action in behalf of children are in a large part parents themselves.
Subject Area
Clinical psychology|Health care management|Social work
Recommended Citation
Flynn, John Patrick, "Puerto Ricans in a Child-Caring Institution: Statistical Analysis of 256 Active Cases From Point of Intake at the Saint Agatha Home for Dependent Children, Nanuet, New York, 1948-1857" (1958). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30509618.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30509618
