Unwanted children
Elizabethan Poor Law
Early US
Early Welfare
Mom and Dad
100
Ancient society where an 1850 B.C. papyri gave prescriptions and directions for contraception
What is Egypt
100
1601
What is the year the Act of Relief for the Poor passed by Parliment creating the Elizabethan Poor Laws
100
The increased number of abandoned children in almshouses and workhouses led to the formation of these institutions
What are orphanages
100
Early 1900's program developed to assist widows, deserted wives and needy children expanded to 35 states by the 1920's
What are Mothers Pensions
100
Woodrow Wilson declared this in 1914
What is Mother's Day
200
If contraception failed, 350 ancient societies sanctioned this practice.
What is abortion
200
Under Elizabethan Law the assistance one received was based on this classification.
Who are the worthy and unworthy poor
200
Organization founded by Rev. Charles Brace out of concern for the number of children growing up on the streets of New York City, beginning of the movement to "farm kids out"
What is the Children's Aid Society
200
The foundation of current social welfare programs, this program established federal responsibility for citizens taking account for external factors not exclusive of personal responsibility and established Aid to Dependent Children
What is the Social Security Act of 1935
200
Richard Nixon declared this event in 1972
What is Father's Day
300

Pagans and Christians began to unite in the Roman Empire to decry this method of dealing with unwanted children still practiced in the 20th century in some countries but now universally condemned. 

What is Infanticide?

300
Children housed in these places often lived in deplorable conditions
What are almshouses (poor house) or workhouses
300
Between 1854 and 1929, this project relocated 150,000 children from cities in the east to new homes across the Midwest, Texas and as far west as California
What are the "orphan trains"
300
Program established in 1965 to provide health care to vulnerable individuals and families
What is Medicaid
300
Welfare caseworkers conducted these to catch fathers who were not financially supporting their children in the 1950' and early 1960's .
What are Welfare Raids sometimes referred to midnight raids
400
Abandoning infants was a common practice throughout this continent as late as the 1800's.
What is Europe
400
Three core principles behind Elizabethan poor laws brought to America.
What are self (family) sufficiency, local responsibility and individuals and families should not be allowed to move unless they are self sufficient.
400
Organization created in 1912 to investigate and report on all matters pertaining to the welfare of children: infant mortality, birthrates, orphans, juvenile court, child labor, accidents and disease
What is Children Bureau
400
This Act of congress extended guidelines to child support decisions including withholding wages on delinquent fathers.
What is the Family Support Act
400
Universally provided in most industrial nations, this service is provided with limitations in the US
What is Child Care
500
Country where 230 "Tours" - revolving boxes built into the front of churches for the anonymous abandonment of infants, operated as late as 1860's.
What is France
500
Latin term for the state or government having the ultimate power to intervene in parent child relationships
What is Parens Patriae
500
Child rescues, orphan trains, "placing" and "farming" out children resulting in children having to work off the cost of their without rights to ownership or inheritance to the places they were placed could also be termed this.
What is indentured servitude.
500
This Act replaced AFDC with Temporary Assistance to Needy Families and focused on moving people from welfare to work
What is the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act
500
As a result of a publication, "What About Fathers", in this year the US began a major initiative to engage fathers in family life
What is 2005
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