Foster Home Adjustment A Study of Ten Children Under Catholic Home Bureau Care Who Have One Successful Placement, 1942-1953
Abstract
Background of the Study. From almost the beginning of time the family has been accepted as the basic unit of stability in society. Although we must admit that pressures of modern day living have caused a certain amount of deterioration in the true meaning of the family, it continues to provide the greatest amount of acceptance, security, and the greatest outlet for the affectional and sexual drives. It is especially important to note that students of society and the individual personality as a whole, attach the greatest importance to well adjusted family living as a primary factor in the normal development of the individual. Throughout the history of man, the Church has also recognized this fact as well as the fact that parents have an obligation to provide sound as well as wholesome living for their off- spring. Pope Pius XI, author of the now famous Encyclicals, ably sums up the Church's viewpoint with: "Those who began the work of nature by giving birth to children are indeed forbidden to leave unfinished this work and so expose it to certain ruin." Consequently it is reasonable to assume that family living as a whole is necessary for the well-being of the individual and society.
Subject Area
Personality psychology|Clinical psychology|Social work
Recommended Citation
Ronson, Henry R, "Foster Home Adjustment A Study of Ten Children Under Catholic Home Bureau Care Who Have One Successful Placement, 1942-1953" (1955). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097090.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097090
