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Book Review: System kids: Adolescent mothers and the politics of regulation

Book Review: System kids: Adolescent mothers and the politics of regulation 524 Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 31(4) religious freedom and social justice. Their mother and other contemporaneous women in their family worked for women’s suffrage in Illinois and Nebraska. Edith and Grace Abbott were both primed for lives of social work before the profession had yet congealed. Edith contributed singularly to early social work through scholarship, academic teaching, and administration as an economist and founding leader of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. Grace became an activist, administrator, and internationally recognized leader in the efforts to end child labor, launch child welfare and maternal health programs, support the rights and integration of immigrants into the United States, and assist refugees in Europe dislocated by World War I. The book highlights Grace Abbott’s responsibilities for aiding in the legislative passage in 1921 of the Promotion of the Welfare and Hygiene of Maternity and Infancy Act also known as the Sheppard–Towner Act. To achieve passage of the law, she worked closely with her mentors, Julia Lathrop and Florence Kelley, and the Women’s Joint Congressional Committee, a powerful lobby- ing group during the 1920s made up of former suffragists, settlement house leaders, and other female social reformers. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Review: System kids: Adolescent mothers and the politics of regulation

Goodkind, Sara
Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work , Volume 31 (4): 2 – Nov 1, 2016
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SAGE
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© The Author(s) 2016
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0886-1099
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1552-3020
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10.1177/0886109916659313
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524 Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 31(4) religious freedom and social justice. Their mother and other contemporaneous women in their family worked for women’s suffrage in Illinois and Nebraska. Edith and Grace Abbott were both primed for lives of social work before the profession had yet congealed. Edith contributed singularly to early social work through scholarship, academic teaching, and administration as an economist and founding leader of the University of Chicago’s School of Social Service Administration. Grace became an activist, administrator, and internationally recognized leader in the efforts to end child labor, launch child welfare and maternal health programs, support the rights and integration of immigrants into the United States, and assist refugees in Europe dislocated by World War I. The book highlights Grace Abbott’s responsibilities for aiding in the legislative passage in 1921 of the Promotion of the Welfare and Hygiene of Maternity and Infancy Act also known as the Sheppard–Towner Act. To achieve passage of the law, she worked closely with her mentors, Julia Lathrop and Florence Kelley, and the Women’s Joint Congressional Committee, a powerful lobby- ing group during the 1920s made up of former suffragists, settlement house leaders, and other female social reformers.

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Published: Nov 1, 2016

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