Adolescent Adjustment Following Discharge From the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Home, Bronx, Between 1954 and 1957 A Case Study of Six Girls Who Returned to the Community After Long Term Care, 1959
Abstract
Down through the years, the word "home" has always held great significance for family groups. It is almost synonymous with the words "love", "generosity", "warmth", "happiness". For children the home is the seat of all love and the center of all activity. It is a base from which a child can step forth to learn new experiences but to which he can always return for security. Daniel Webster, in his Collegiate Dictionary, defines such a home as "a dwelling place of a man and his family. " However, Webster has a second definition for home, i.e. a benevolent or charitable institution. This is often the only definition known to children who have been denied the love and security of family life. Such children are known as "dependent" children, i.e. they are in need of care outside their own family, sometimes until the age of eighteen because of the parents’ inability to provide that care.
Subject Area
Multicultural Education|American history|Individual & family studies|Sociology
Recommended Citation
Hammond, Sister Marita Paul, "Adolescent Adjustment Following Discharge From the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Home, Bronx, Between 1954 and 1957 A Case Study of Six Girls Who Returned to the Community After Long Term Care, 1959" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050547.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050547
