Administrative Guides for Child Caring Institutions a Contribution to the Preparation of a Manual of Administration for Catholic Institutions in the Archdiocese of New York, 1959
Abstract
American society, since colonial days, has shown a concern for the welfare of children and has provided various types of care for those children who for one reason or another could no longer remain with their families. Historically, children in the above category were given custodial care in an institutional setting. These children were in need of shelter, food and clothing because of the death or illness of their parents, inadequate income or other social conditions that interrupted normal family life. Today, many children who previously would have been placed in an institution because of the above reasons, now are able to remain at home due to Public Assistance Programs such as Aid to Dependent Children, Home Relief and to voluntary family and children’s services, Others are legally adopted when eligible or are placed in foster family homes until they can return to their own families or relatives or, when feasible, maintain themselves in the community. Therefore the number of children in institutional care has decreased as indicated by the following statistics. In the United States as of December 1953 there were about 140,000 children in institutions as compared to 95,000 children in 1950. During the same period, the number of children in foster family homes increased by 60,000.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|Sociology|Social work|Statistics
Recommended Citation
Ronan, Marguerite T, "Administrative Guides for Child Caring Institutions a Contribution to the Preparation of a Manual of Administration for Catholic Institutions in the Archdiocese of New York, 1959" (1961). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050505.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050505
