Parental Background, an Important Factor in Institutional Placements: A Statistical Study of Twenty-Five Family Situations From Which Children Were Admitted to St. Agatha Home, Nanuet, New York, in 1957
Abstract
Background of the Study. The history of organized child care in the Archdiocese of New York dates from 1817,1 when the Roman Catholic Benevolent Society was incorporated and started the work of raising funds for the establishment of an asylum for orphans. In that same year Bishop John Connelly requested Mother Elizabeth Seton, foundress of the Sisters of Charity in America, to send some of her Sisters to New York to care for the children as they were already doing in Philadelphia. Three Sisters arrived from Emmitsburg that August and a few weeks later were established in a small, wooden house on Prince Street with their first admissions - five children, all orphans.
Subject Area
Public administration|Social work
Recommended Citation
Ward, Mary Joanne, "Parental Background, an Important Factor in Institutional Placements: A Statistical Study of Twenty-Five Family Situations From Which Children Were Admitted to St. Agatha Home, Nanuet, New York, in 1957" (1959). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30557731.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30557731
