Author: Charles Richmond Henderson

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9781230016917

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...of providing a home for such child." Children may be placed out in private families on board, the board being paid either by the parents, in whole or in part, or from the public treasury, or from the treasury of some private organization. The boarding-out system is used extensively in the state of Massachusetts, where in 1908 the state board of public charities paid from the public treasury for "the support of state minor wards," $346,000. The city of Boston paid for the board and care of children in the neighborhood of $75,000, and private organizations paid in the neighborhood of $50,000, a total of about $471,000 for the care of children boarded in private family homes. The boarding-out system is practiced quite extensively in the state of Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. It is practiced to a considerable extent also in the states of New jersey and California, and in a lesser degree in the other states of the Union. In Massachusetts, the tendency has been to substitute the placing-out method for the care of children in institutions. The building of new orphan asylums has practically ceased, and no less than 13 orphan asylums and children's homes have been closed within the last few years, family home care being substituted. Among the institutions closed were: The Massachusetts State School at Monson; the two homes of the Boston Children's Aid Society; the home of the Boston Children's Friend Society; the home of the Boston Children's Mission; the Boston Female Asylum. The Boston child-helping societies have substituted home care for institutional care, even in cases where the child is only to be under care for a day or two. The boarding-out plan has not yet made much headway, ex cept...