Foster Home Licensing in the United States: A Survey of the Licensing Laws, Standards and Policies in the United States (Including Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the District of Columbia) in Relation to Foster Homes for Children
Abstract
The progress of a state may be measured by the extent to which it safeguards the rights, of its children. Ideally this involves not only legal and religious protection but, also, an available and sufficient supply of facilities and resources necessary to provide all of its children the opportunity and the means by which they may mature into productive satisfied citizens . There is at present a growing realization that anything short of this goal is to deny a child his fair chance in the world. We are, no one of us, free of this responsibility, just as we are, no one of us, less deserving of a fair chance. In many cases, where parents have failed, in whole or in part, to provide their offspring the opportunity to develop into healthy adults, physically, mentally and spiritually, both public and private organizations have interceded in behalf of its children and have assumed supplementary roles with varying degrees of effectiveness and success.
Subject Area
American studies|Individual & family studies|Social work
Recommended Citation
Di Vita, Anthony Francis, "Foster Home Licensing in the United States: A Survey of the Licensing Laws, Standards and Policies in the United States (Including Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the District of Columbia) in Relation to Foster Homes for Children" (1953). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557663.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557663
