 | United States. Congress. House. Comm. on the District of Columbia - 1923 - 384 pages
...'dependent' or 'neglected ' children as used in this act shall be held to mean and include any child who is destitute or homeless or abandoned or dependent upon the public for support," etc. That during the period from November, 1919, to June 23, 1920, Mrs. Carlisle had a comfortable... | |
 | Michigan - 1923 - 666 pages
...purpose of this act the words "dependent child" shall mean any child under the age of seventeen years who for any reason is destitute, or homeless, or abandoned, or dependent upon private charity or upon the public for support, or whose mother is unmarried, or is divorced, or is... | |
 | Michigan - 1925 - 888 pages
...this act the words "dependent "Dependent child" shall mean any child under the age of seventeen years who for any reason is destitute, or homeless, or abandoned, or dependent upon private charity or upon the public for support, or whose mother is unmarried, or is divorced, or is... | |
 | Eleanor Jeanne Flynn - 1926 - 478 pages
...children. Of interest is the legal definition of a dependent child: Any child under the age of 16 years who for any reason is destitute or homeless or abandoned...guardianship; or who habitually begs or receives alms; or who ie found living in a house of ill-fame; or with any vieious or disreputable person or whose home by... | |
 | Kathryn Dickinson Goodwin - 1926 - 160 pages
...condition. A dependent or neglected child is defined by law as "any child under the age of sixteen years, who for any reason is destitute or homeless, or abandoned...the public for support; or has not proper parental сагз or guardianship; or who habitually begs or receives alms; or v;ho is found living in any house... | |
 | 1926 - 92 pages
...eighteen years of age who is abandoned by both parents, or, if one parent is dead, by the survivor; or who has not proper parental care or guardianship; or who...habitually begs or receives alms; or who is found living in a house of ill-fame or with disreputable persons; or whose home, by reason of neglect, cruelty, or... | |
 | Children's Commission of Pennsylvania - 1926 - 198 pages
...the words 'depenp. L. 279 lie- dent child' and 'neglected child' shall mean any child (under sixteen) who, for any reason, is destitute or homeless, or...dependent upon the public for support, or has not the proper parental care or guardianship, or who habitually begs or receives alms, or who is found... | |
 | 1926 - 1242 pages
...or not, its finding of mere neglect, to which nothing can be added by intendment, fnlls far short of 'destitute or homeless, or abandoned, or dependent upon the public for support,' etc., the conditions specified in the statute." And so the Supreme Court concluded in that case that... | |
 | 1902 - 548 pages
...only to children under the age of sixteen years. A 'dependent' or 'neglected' child is defined to be 'any child who for any reason is destitute or homeless...the public for support; or has not proper parental oare or guardianship; or who habitually begs or receives alms; or who is found living in any house... | |
 | Eugene McQuillin - 1928 - 1024 pages
...Children." The words "neglected child" are ordinarily defined as any child sixteen years of age or under who is destitute, or homeless, or abandoned, or dependent upon the public for support, or who habitually begs or receives alms, is found in any house of ill-fame or with any vicious or disreputable... | |
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For the purpose of this act the words "dependent child" and " neglected child" shall mean any child who for any reason is destitute or homeless or abandoned; or dependent upon the public for support; or has not proper parental care or guardianship; or... 
