...Children's Bureau of the 0epartment of Labor for the purpose of "...investigating and reporting on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of people." Gnder the leadership of Julia Lathrop, the Bureau conducted oumerous studies relating to iofant...

...with specific issues affecting children. The federal law establishing the Children's Bureau charged it to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining...children and child life among all classes of our people . . ." Questions which the Act directed the Bureau to investigate included "dangerous occupations"...

...by an act of Congress and subsumed under the Department of Labor, the Children's Bureau was mandated to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...children and child life among all classes of our people." '" From 1912 to 1929, the Children's Bureau probably did more than any other organization in the country...

...Taft on April 9, 1912. The newly established US Children's Bureau was commissioned to report on "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people" ; its first-year appropriation of $25,640" marked an early commitment by the federal government to...

...developed. As you see, we in the Children's Bureau remain committed not only to our original mission to "investigate and report . . . upon all matters...pertaining to the welfare of children and child life." but also to a vigorous advocacy role in their behalf. Sixty years ago, the few centimeters of tissue...

...be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate." That bureau shall investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, physical degeneracy,...

...vortex of current social welfare reform. The Bureau was established on April 9, 1912, with a mandate to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining...children and child life among all classes of our people." Julia Lathrop,* first chief of the Bureau, brought her twenty years of experience at HullHouse and...

...Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.) Charged with the duty of investigating and reporting upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people," die bureau had no administrative power, nor was it to perform any services, strictly speaking. Rather,...

...child abuse led to the formation of the Children's Bureau in 1912, created by the federal government to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children."36 On April 13, 1888, a heated debate took place following the reading of a paper that referred...

...exploitation of working children, Congress established a Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor "to investigate and report . . . upon all matters...children and child life among all classes of our people" (quoted in Lesser, 1985, p. 591). In its first annual report, the Bureau acknowledged its responsibility...