Long Term Foster Care: A Study of Fifteen Children Between the Ages of Four and Eight Under the Care of the New York Foundling Hospital to Identify the Factors Which Have Contributed to Their Continued Care
Abstract
This is a study of fifteen children between the ages of four and eight who were admitted to The New York Foundling Hospital as infants and who were still in foster boarding homes during 1962. This study will not include children adjudged to be true foundlings, who were abandoned as infants and the identity of their parents never established. The parents of each child or at least the mother were known either to the referral agency or to the New York Foundling Hospital. The children studied were in good health and without physical handicaps at the time of placement. Serious mental handicap was ruled out, since such children would not be accepted for foster boarding care.
Subject Area
Social research|Social work
Recommended Citation
Smith, Susan Veronica, "Long Term Foster Care: A Study of Fifteen Children Between the Ages of Four and Eight Under the Care of the New York Foundling Hospital to Identify the Factors Which Have Contributed to Their Continued Care" (1963). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI30613231.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI30613231
