FAILED CENTURY OF THE CHILD: GOVERNING AMERICA'S YOUNG IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS; Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: NEW YORK
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 374
Description: 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.