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Stephen O'Connor
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| #432963 in Books | 2004-03-01 | 2004-03-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x1.20 x6.00l,1.12 | File type: PDF | 384 pages||23 of 23 people found the following review helpful.| very dissapointed|By Gretchen|I feel the author Stephen O'Connor was being overly critical of Charles Loring Brace the founder of the Children's Aid Society. He seems to judge Brace's work of 150 years ago according to modern standards. Seems Brace did the best he could do to help the thousands of poor children and families before any social service system was in place. Pi|From Publishers Weekly|From 1854 to 1929, an estimated 250,000 children were "emigrated" out of "vice-ridden" urban areas and put up for grabs in the West, where labor was in short supply. Brace (1826-1890) educated himself for the ministry, but under the influe
In mid-nineteenth-century New York, vagrant youth, both orphans and runaways, filled the streets. For years the city had been sweeping these children into prisons or almshouses, but in 1853 the young minister Charles Loring Brace proposed a radical solution to the problem by creating the Children's Aid Society, an organization that fought to provide homeless children with shelter, education, and, for many, a new family in the country. Combining a biography of Brace ...
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