White House Conference on Children in a Democracy, Washington, D.C., January 18-20, 1940: Final Report

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1942 - 392 páginas
 

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Página 182 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Página 186 - ... dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Página ix - MADAM: There is transmitted herewith the Final Report of the Report Committee of the White House Conference on Children in a Democracy, which was held in Washington, January 18-20, 1940. The work of this Conference has already had important results in focusing the attention of the Nation upon the needs of children and the services which every community should make available to assure their health, education, recreation, and social well-being. Since the Conference met in January...
Página 127 - ... a residence requirement which denies aid with respect to any child residing in the State ( 1 ) who has resided in the State for one year immediately preceding the application...
Página 315 - More recently, the Technical Committee on Medical Care of the Interdepartmental Committee to Coordinate Health and Welfare Activities...
Página 75 - For every child, these rights, regardless of race, or color, or situation, wherever he may live under the protection of the American flag.
Página 365 - To this end the Conference recommends that a critical and comprehensive study be made of the various experiences both of the churches and of the schools in dealing with the problem of religious education in relation to public education. The purpose of such a study would be to discover how these phases of education may best be provided for in a total program of education, without in any way violating the principle of the separation of church and State.
Página 123 - Administration work projects, preference shall be determined, as far as practicable, on the basis of relative needs and shall, where the relative needs are found to be the same, be given...
Página 26 - The child has food and shelter if his family has a home and provides food. He is content and happy if he is well, if he has parents and others to love and be loved by.
Página 61 - An extended program of Federal financial assistance to the States should be adopted in order to reduce inequalities in educational opportunity among States. Because the minority groups have proportionately more children than others and live to a greater extent in areas with the least resources, the principle of Federal aid to States for services affecting children is extremely important for their welfare.

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