Foster Care for Children A Case Study of Five Foster Homes That Were Approved and Used During 1957 and Were Closed for Casework Reasons Before December 31, 1959, New York Foundling Hospital, New York
Abstract
It has been an accepted principal that the society that neglects its children, threatens itself. At the White House Conference of 1909 in Washington, D.C. under the direction of President Theodore Roosevelt, national leadership and concern in child welfare was initiated. This concern and leadership was rooted in the realization of the importance of providing opportunities for children which will nurture their physical and mental endowments.The family, representative of society, is the social institution with the obligation of providing the child with the protection and opportunity to learn to adapt this behavior to the rights and needs of others. However, the family may be unable or unwilling to fulfill its role and the higher social institution of society represented by the private and governmental social welfare services may assume the family role responsibility. The assumption of this role can be seen in the principle set forth by the 1909 White House Conference in Washington which in part states that "normal children deprived of a natural homelife due to urgent and compelling reasons should be cared for in a way which most closely resembles the natural home, a carefully selected foster home."
Subject Area
Psychology|Social research|Social psychology
Recommended Citation
Gorman, Michael John, "Foster Care for Children A Case Study of Five Foster Homes That Were Approved and Used During 1957 and Were Closed for Casework Reasons Before December 31, 1959, New York Foundling Hospital, New York" (1960). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31050553.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31050553
