| Description |
xiv, 381 p. : ill. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Three movements, one goal -- Save the child and save the nation : the rise of social feminism and social research -- G. Stanley Hall and the child study movement -- Scientific child rearing, organized motherhood, and parent education -- Social welfare reformers and reform-minded scientists -- The Children's Bureau under Julia Lathrop : government at its best -- From juvenile delinquency research to child guidance -- Better crops, better pigs, better children : the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station -- The children's decade -- Child development research : preventive politics -- Out of step with his times : Arnold Gesell and the Yale Clinic -- The child guidance movement : another approach to preventive politics -- Child guidance becomes child psychiatry -- The Children's Bureau under Grace Abbott : uphill all the way -- Epilogue: What happened to the early movements? : the child development field after World War II. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Child development -- Research -- United States -- History.
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Children -- Research -- United States -- History.
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Child welfare -- United States -- History.
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Child rearing -- United States -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Smuts, Robert W.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
0300108974 (alk. paper) |
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