Failed Century of the Child Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century

Name: Failed Century of the Child Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780521535687

ISBN-10: 0521535689

ISBN-13: 9780521535687

Edition: 2003

Authors: Judith Sealander

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Between 1900 and 2000 an unprecedented effort to use state regulation to guarantee health, opportunity, and security to America's children failed to reach its goals. This account of the period reveals that the achievements envisioned were extremely ambitious and reflected entrenched, but self-contradictory, values as well as Americans' inconsistent expectations of government. Based on extensive research, the volume analyzes the period's public policies that affected children's welfare, work, education, and health.

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 386
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.254




Children's Welfare



Juvenile justice: from 'child saving' to 'public accountability'



'The Pontius Pilate' routine: government responses to child abuse



'Illusory promises': state aid to poor children



Children's Work



'Inducting into adulthood': state reactions to the labor of children and adolescents



Children's Education



'Laying down principles in the dark': the consequences of compulsory secondary education



The return of the infant school: twentieth century preschool education



Public education of disabled children: 'rewriting one of the saddest chapters'



Children's Health



'Shaped up' by the state: government attempts to improve children's diets, exercise regimes, and physical fitness



Mandatory medicine: twentieth century childhood immunization