Grace Abbott
What major federal agency did Grace Abbott help lead to improve child welfare?
The US Children’s Bureau
Florence Kelley is best known for fighting against what practice?
Child labor
Julia Lathrop was the first woman to head what federal agency?
The US Children's Bureau
What federal agency was created in 1912 to study and protect children?
The US Children's Bureau
The child welfare reform movement was a part of what larger time period?
The Progressive Era
Abbott was one of the largest advocates for enforcing what kind of laws?
Child Labor Laws
What organization did Kelley lead that helped push for labor and welfare reform?
The National Consumers League (NCL)
Lathrop focused on improving conditions in what institutions for children?
Orphanages, courts, and jails.
The National Consumers League (NCL) focused on what?
Working conditions and child labor practices
Reformers believed social problems were caused by what?
Industrialization and poor living conditions
Grace Abbott argued that who should be the primary protector of children’s rights?
The federal government
Kelley used consumer power to encourage people to do what?
Buy goods made with fair labor
Lathrop believed that children should be treated differently than adults in what system?
The criminal justice system
The Sheppard-Towner Act focused on helping what groups?
Mothers and infants
Places like Hull House helped reformers by doing what?
Providing social services and studying urban poverty, as well as a way to connect with other reformers.
Abbott led promoted what 1921 law that provided federal funding for mothers and infants?
The Sheppard-Townes Maternity and Infancy Act (1921)
Kelley helped influence which Supreme Court case that upheld female working regulations?
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Lathrop emphasized the use of what method to improve child welfare?
Data collection and research
These reform laws aimed to limit the number of hours children could do what?
Work in factories and mines
Progressive reformers generally believed the government should do what?
Take an active role in protecting citizens, especially children.