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Child protection in America : past, present, and future / John E.B. Myers.
- Title
- Child protection in America : past, present, and future / John E.B. Myers.
- Author
- Myers, John E. B.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 306 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "This sweeping account analyzes the theory and policies that have shaped today's child protection system.
- This book will challenge all those concerned with children's welfare to move toward real solutions that will make life better for America's most vulnerable children."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- University press scholarship online.
- Subject
- History, 20th Century
- History, 19th Century
- Child Abuse > prevention & control
- Child Abuse
- Child Welfare
- Child welfare > United States
- Child welfare > United States > History
- Child abuse > United States > Prevention
- Child abuse > Law and legislation > United States
- Children > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
- United States
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Child protection from the colonial period to 1875 -- Societies for the prevention of cruelty to children -- Child protection from 1900 to 1962 -- Child protection from 1962 to the present -- Child sexual abuse -- Causes of child abuse and neglect -- Reducing abuse and neglect -- Improving the child protection system.
- ISBN
- 0195169352 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780195169355
- LCCN
- ^^2005024921
- OCLC
- 61461551
- SCSB-10078357
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library