Fallen Women, Problem Girls
Subtitle: Unmarried Mothers and the Professionalization of Social Work, 1890-1945 (Yale Historical Publications Series)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: August 30, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780300065091
Subjects: American history; Family welfare; Social history; Social work; USA; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; General; Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare; History / General; Sociology
First sentence: In 1919, social worker J. Prentice Murphy called on these melodramatic words by British reformer Albert Leffingwell to represent the unmarried mother.