...the Department of Labor. CHILDREN'S BUREAU. The act establishing the bureau provides that it shall investigate and report upon all matters pertaining...to the welfare of children and child life among all claases of our people ana shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth...

...Children's Unroau. The bureau was confronted by the field marked out for it by this committee, namely, to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children r.nd child hfe among all classes of our people, and at the same time by the fact that its...

...Children's Bureau. The bureau was confronted by the field marked out for it by this committee, namely, to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining...and child life among all classes of our people. and at the Mime time by the fact that hs staff consisted of 13 people and its appropriation .•525,640....

...Bureau and it is our business to try to interpret the law, which says it shall be the duty of the Bureau to " investigate and report upon all matters pertaining...of children and child life among all classes of our people.7' That means, of course, that "we are in part to glean in that great field where you have left...

...of the action of the Secretary. The Children's Bureau investigates and reports to the department all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, especially such questions as infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion,...

...[54]. In the early part of the twentieth century, the constitutional authority establishing a bureau "to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children" was fervently argued. Today we debate the efficacy of cutting funds for programs and the...

...the federal government's responsibility for dependent children; and the mandate given to the Bureau to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...children and child life among all classes of our people . . ." suggested a public responsibility to monitor the well-being of all children, not just those...

...Children's Bureau during the reforming fervor of 1912. The new agency received a broad mandate, which was to "investigate and report upon all matters pertaining...children and child life among all classes of our people." Among the issues suggested for study were "infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts,...

...research and information center and did not initially perform any child welfare services. Its function was to investigate and report upon all matters pertaining...children and child life among all classes of our people including questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous...

...stigmatized (as mothers' pensions unfortunately did). The Children's Bureau was established in 1911 to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...of children and child life among all classes of our people."35 The bureau's chief, Julia Lathrop, mobilized women's associations and reform groups across...