Parental Contact in Foster Care A Study of Parental Visiting Trends in Twenty-One Sibling Groups Active Within the Boarding Department of the Angel Guardian Home, Brooklyn, 1949 – 1954
Abstract
Background and Timeliness of the Study. When, towards the dawn of the present century, the Brooklyn Sisters of Mercy opened the doors of one of their new convents to ninety little girls between the ages of two and five years. The Angel Guardian Home exercised for the first time its function as a child-care agency. Born of the urgings of a Divine love which cannot contemplate Christ apart from the least member of His Mystical Body, and nourished by the spirit of a Foundress whose legacy to the Institute was charity, The Angel Guardian Home proceeded to alleviate a material need of the hour in an interior spirit of faith and love. Ostensibly, however, the structure of the Agency and its operation in actual practice did not differ considerably from that of other authorized child-caring institutions of the time. Tenacity of purpose found new ways of giving service and the years that followed were characterized by a marked flexibility and extension of program conditioned to fluctuating and newly-recognized needs, Wh.at was begun in 1899 as a congregate institution for little girl "toddlers" gradually expanded to include diverse placement and casework facilities for the dependent and neglected children of the Brooklyn Diocese, and for the unmarried mother as well.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Sociology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Fitz-Gibbon, Sister Mary Margaret, "Parental Contact in Foster Care A Study of Parental Visiting Trends in Twenty-One Sibling Groups Active Within the Boarding Department of the Angel Guardian Home, Brooklyn, 1949 – 1954" (1956). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050492.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050492
