Adoptive Planning for the Out-of-Wedlock Child: A Case Study of Twenty-Three Mothers Who Placed Their Children at the New York Foundling Hospital, New York, During the Period January Through December, 1957
Abstract
Background of the Study. One of the basic principles of the child welfare field is the right and the need of every child to participate in family living. A secure and adequate home has been recognized for several decades as vital to the mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical growth of our children. Child care agencies have attempted to mold their functions in accordance with this principle in a variety of ways: foster care programs; intensive casework services to parents, who because of emotional or physical handicaps seek placement for their children, and adoption services. Youngsters continue to remain in institutions during their formative years but the reason is no longer lack of understanding of their real needs. Institutional placement is sometimes the only plan possible because of the shortage of foster homes or the trauma involved for the youngster in relating to a substitute mother figure.
Subject Area
Spirituality|Social work
Recommended Citation
McCarthy, Virginia, "Adoptive Planning for the Out-of-Wedlock Child: A Case Study of Twenty-Three Mothers Who Placed Their Children at the New York Foundling Hospital, New York, During the Period January Through December, 1957" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050502.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050502
