{"product_id":"right-to-childhood","title":"Right to Childhood","description":"      Warring factions in the United States like to use children as weapons\u003cbr\u003e         for their political agendas as Americans try to determine the role--if\u003cbr\u003e         any--of the federal government in the lives of children. But what is the\u003cbr\u003e         history of child welfare policy in the United States? What can we learn\u003cbr\u003e         from the efforts to found the U.S. Children's bureau in 1903 and its eventual\u003cbr\u003e         dismemberment in 1946?\u003cbr\u003e       This is the first history of the Children's Bureau and the first in-depth\u003cbr\u003e         examination of federal child welfare policy from the perspective of that\u003cbr\u003e         agency. Its goal was to promote \"a right to childhood,\" and\u003cbr\u003e         Kriste Lindenmeyer unflinchingly examines the successes--and the failures--of\u003cbr\u003e         the Bureau. She analyzes infant and maternal mortality, the promotion\u003cbr\u003e         of child health care, child labor reform, and the protection of children\u003cbr\u003e         with \"special needs\" from the Bureau's inception through the\u003cbr\u003e         Depression, and through all the legislation that impacted on its work\u003cbr\u003e         for children. The meaningful accomplishments and the demise of the Children's\u003cbr\u003e         Bureau have much to tell parents, politicians, and policy-makers everywhere.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54244425302360,"sku":"9780252065774","price":34.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/right-to-childhood","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}