The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth CenturyCambridge University Press, 2003 M11 3 - 374 pages Between 1900 and 2000 an unprecedented American effort to use state regulation to guarantee health, opportunity, and security to the country's children failed to reach its goals. The achievements envisioned were enormously ambitious and reflected entrenched but self-contradictory values and Americans' inconsistent expectations of government. As such, a "failed" century deserves a mixture of rebuke and cautious admiration. |
Contents
Juvenile Justice From Child Saving to Public Accountability | 19 |
The Pontius Pilate Routine Government Responses to Child Abuse | 53 |
Illusory Promises State Aid to Poor Children | 92 |
Inducting into Adulthood State Reactions to the Labor of Children and Adolescents | 137 |
Laying Down Principles in the Dark The Consequences of Compulsory Secondary Education | 187 |
The Return of the Infant School TwentiethCentury Preschool Education | 222 |
Public Education of Disabled Children Rewriting One of the Saddest Chapters | 259 |
Shaped Up by the State Government Attempts to Improve Childrens Diets Exercise Regimes and Physical Fitness | 293 |
Mandatory Medicine TwentiethCentury Childhood Immunization | 323 |
Two Cheers for a Failed Century | 355 |
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