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The Challenge For Children's Agencies
Some people still believe that infants, deprived through death of their parents' care, are best provided for by spending their entire childhood, up until they graduate from high school, in orphans' homes. WE know that is wrong, but can we say SCIENCE TEACHES that orphanages of this type are harmful?...
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Title: The Challenge For Children's Agencies
Creator: Gunnar Dybwad (author)
Date: June 15, 1949
Format: Speech
Source: Friends of the Samuel Gridley Howe Library and the Dybwad Family
Keywords: Advocacy; Children; Cleveland, OH; Cognitive Disability; Diagnoses & Diseases; Economics; Family; Government; Government Agencies; Gunnar Dybwad; Institutions; Laws & Regulation; Medical Professionals; Medicine; Medicine & Science; Michigan; National Conference Of Social Work; National Mental Health Foundation; Ohio; Physical Disability; Polio; Psychiatric Disability; Public Health; Public Health & Welfare; Service Organizations; Social Welfare; Social Welfare & Communities; Social Work
Topics: Government, Policy & Law; Institutions, Organizations & Corporations; Science, Health & Technology; Social Movements & Advocacy
Note: Paper given at the National Conference of Social Work, Cleveland, Ohio.