SOCIAL SCIENCE TEXT-BOOKS EDITED BY RICHARD T. ELY OUTLINES OF ECONOMICS By RICHARD T. ELY, PH.D., LL.D. Revised and OUTLINES OF SOCIOLOGY By FRANK W. BLACKMAR, PH.D., and JOHN LEWIS HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (Revised Edi tion) BY LEWIS H. HANEY, PH.D. BUSINESS ORGANIZATION AND COMBINATION By LEWIS H. HANEY, PH.D. PROBLEMS OF CHILD WELFARE By GEORGE B. MANGOLD, PH.D. SOCIAL PROBLEMS By EZRA T. TOWNE, PH.D. THE NEW AMERICAN GOVERNMENT By JAMES T. YOUNG, PH.D. COMPARATIVE FREE GOVERNMENT By JESSE MACY, LL.D., and JOHN W. GANNAWAY, M.A. AMERICAN MUNICIPAL PROGRESS By CHARLES Zueblin. APPLIED EUGENICS By PAUL POPENOE and ROSWELL S. JOHNSON, M.S. AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS BY HENRY C. TAYLOR, M.S. AGR., PH.D. THE LABOR MARKET By DON D. LESCOHIER, PH.D. WELFARE BY GEORGE B. MANGOLD, PH.D. DIRECTOR SCHOOL OF SOCIAL ECONOMY New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1923 All rights reserved PREFACE 4V713 11/3 Social Library WITH the gradual shifting of the emphasis from remedial to preventive and constructive work, problems of child welfare have received much attention, largely on the theory that work with children is fundamentally constructive in its nature. Believing that the best results are achieved by beginning with the child, the author has attempted to present in a systematic way the principles of child welfare, and to correlate the different problems involved. The task consists mainly of adjusting the constructive philanthropy of to-day to the needs of the child, his improvement being the direct objective. While it is recognized that every social problem involves children, those questions that affect them only in an indirect way are excluded from the book, and the subject matter is limited to the problems of direct and immediate interest, so as to make a consistent treatment of the subject possible. To meet the need as adequately as the author can hope to do in a single volume, each separate problem has been analyzed with reference to causes and conditions, to the existing social machinery for coping with the problem, and to a plan and program of improvement or prevention. The book is designed especially for use by college and university students in courses on constructive and preventive philanthropy. However, the general reader has not been forgotten, and it is hoped that the book will appeal to that growing class of men and women who in a systematic way are endeavoring to acquaint themselves with the various aspects of practical sociology. The author is happy to express his indebtedness to Professor Richard T. Ely for his suggestions as to the form and subject matter of the book, for his careful reading of the manuscript, and for his many valuable criticisms and suggestions for improvement. |