Children's Bureau In The 20th Century

During the turn of the 20th century there were many significant changes in the treatment, attitude and care towards children. One of those changes was the creation of the Children's Bureau in 1912 and the Child Welfare League of America followed in 1921. The Children's Bureau documented the threats to maternal and child health as crucial to the Act of the Promotion of the Welfare and Hygiene of the Maternity and Infancy also known as Sheppard-Towner Act in 1921. The general purpose of the act was to be educational. There was instruction in maternal and infant care provided by nurses and doctors through itinerant conferences held in either the home or a established health center. There was also a principle established within those years focused on the federal interest of a child. The Juvenile court movement is also a significant change when it came to children because they believed that the was a need to the importance of differentiating the needs of children. The first juvenile court law, An Act to Regulate the Treatment and Control of Dependent, Neglected, and Delinquent children enacted in 1899 in Illinois. The law applied to children under 16 years of age and provided for a special juvenile courtroom and record-keeping system and probation officers “to charge any …show more content…
The act, from point of view of program provisions, administrative structuring and federal-state fiscal arranging represented by watershed or the mingling of old and new orientations towards people and economic beings. The act evolved from the work of the committee on Economic Security. The law's program provisions covered loss of income due to temporary loss of job (Unemployment Compensation), inability to participate in the labor force due to age or disability, the promotion of the welfare of mothers and children, and the encouragement of adequate state and local public health