United States Children's Bureau

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The United States Children's Bureau ( German  American Children's Office ) is a federal agency in the United States to ensure compliance with national standards for which was set up in 1912 child care to monitor. It is the first national authority in the world that is solely concerned with the care of children and their mothers.

history

Around 1900, social reformers like Lillian Wald and Florence Kelley called for a federal agency to deal with problems such as child mortality , child poverty and child labor . As in other developed countries , many American children at the time were poor, worked in terrible conditions in fields , factories, and mines, and died early from preventable diseases. On April 9, 1912, President William Howard Taft signed a bill to establish a Children's Office "to investigate and report on all matters relating to the welfare and life of children at all walks of life ." The children's office was originally housed in the Ministry of Commerce and Labor and was transferred to the newly created Ministry of Labor in 1913 .

tasks

Since 1991, the Children's Office has been part of the Administration for Children and Families subdivision of the Department of Health and Human Services , helping provide child protection and family strengthening services by distributing grants to states, Indian tribes and communities. The authority's area of ​​responsibility includes services from support of adoption and foster care to the prevention of child abuse and neglect .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ History , Children's Bureau, accessed January 14, 2017.
  2. ^ United States Children's Bureau . In: Encyclopædia Britannica

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