A Case Study of Five Children Discharged to the After Care Program of the New York Foundling Hospital
Abstract
That basic and most essential unit of social organization, the family, has been studied with great care by many authorities, all of whom, in succession, have discovered that tremendous forces act upon family life. The State and the Church, both recognizing its vast importance, join in offering a variety of means for protecting and preserving the family. For hundreds of years the civilization of Western Europe and of the Americas has built enormous bulwarks of safety around the family and created a vast idealism centering in it. No other relationship is thought to equal that which reaches its highest expression in the normal family group. The opportunity for the development of the finer qualities of character, for the expression of different and diverse personality types, is most assured in the atmosphere created by the family. The totality of values which it gives to its members is well recognized as vastly outweighing its weaker aspects.
Subject Area
Health care management|Social work
Recommended Citation
Winkler, Mary Elizabeth, "A Case Study of Five Children Discharged to the After Care Program of the New York Foundling Hospital" (1953). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31189802.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31189802
