Exam 2: Poor Attitudes
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Updated: 15 Nov 2018
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English Poor LawsDeclaration of IndependenceChildren's Bureau
1912: began with 14 staff & did child welfare research, no servicesChildren's Bureau
1913: study of baby deaths, found high mother death ratesChildren's Bureau
1915: funding & staff significantly increasedSheppard-Towner Act
plan to improve child facilities/services
proved to be success (strengthened state health dept & infant mortality rates dropped)
also important for bring federal gov't into child welfare fieldKeating Owen BillKeating Owen Bill
struck downFirst White House Conference on Child WelfarePeriods
Being poor is a misfortune/it's unavoidable
Society is responsible for aidepoor:
children,
able-bodied,
impotent
society's
responsibility
Outdoor relief
(home/cmnty)-capitalism, taxes, urban growth
-poor should be allowed to die-off
-the poor are responsible for their own situation
-indoor (institutional) reliefFuedalism/Middle Ages
MercantilismColonial EraEnlightenmentChildren were economic
labor for the farmChildren are
property
of their parentsChildren are
individual
peopleCivil WarReconstructionoutdoor
relief
steadily
abolishedGilded Ageresistance to public relief
..it demoralized the workerchildren in labor forceEugenics
sterilization of the poorscientific research of poor
it's partly their characteristics but also their environmentProgressive EraGreat Depression & New Dealprivate relief struggled and many agencies closed
public relief was slow to kick in since it had been so frowned upon
Hoover was waiting for nature to course correct on its own
FDR implemented first federally backed national relief admin (FERA)
SS Act decreased the value of reproductive labor againresurgence of public welfare
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