New E-book Shares Children's Bureau's
100-Year Commitment to Children and Families
A recently released e-book—The Children's Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood—presents
a comprehensive look at the first 100 years of the Children's Bureau,
which is part of the ACYF/ACF/HHS. The e-book combines compelling text
with striking historical images to tell the story of a small Federal
agency that took on some of the nation's most devastating social
problems, including infant mortality, child labor, and child abuse and
neglect.
The e-book places
the Children's Bureau's achievements in the context of changing world
events and social movements, including the following:
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- America's Conscience Gives Birth to the Children's Bureau
- Saving Babies and Restoring Childhood (1912-1929)
- The Great Depression and Social Security (1930-1939)
- Wartime and Recovery (1940-1956)
- A Growing Government Shrinks the Children's Bureau (1957-1973)
- Sharpening the Focus on Child Welfare (1974-1992)
- Partnering With Families and Working to Improve Outcomes (1993-2012)
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Read the e-book
to learn more about how the agency's early efforts, coupled with an
enduring commitment to children, youth, and families, laid the
foundation for today's initiatives to improve the lives of children and
families.
The Children's Bureau Legacy: Ensuring the Right to Childhood (ISBN = 9780160917226) can be purchased online from:
A free PDF also is available from the CB centennial website.
"[This] will be a
treasured resource, a landmark publication and, in many cases, a roadmap
for addressing many of our 21st-century challenges involving the
nation's diverse children and their families."
Katharine Briar-Lawson, Dean and Professor, School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, State University of New York
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