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This volume reviews the policy reforms necessary in the United States for children's homes to become reliable solutions for many of the nation's disadvantaged and abused children. The contributors explore a variety of topics including: judicial issues; child maltreatment; the history of children's homes; regulation and funding; and solutions for reform.
Funding Our Children's Future: The Interplay of Funding and Regulatory Philosophies on Private Children's Homes
Funding Our Children's Future: The Interplay of Funding and Regulatory Philosophies on Private Children's Homes
Easter 1907 had just passed, and a Mississippi summer was at hand. The lawn surrounding two large, brick buildings at Palmer Orphanage in Columbus, Mississippi, was a carpet of green, “so inviting to the little ones,” wrote Florence Frierson, the orphanage's head matron and wife of Palmer superintendent William V. Frierson. Mrs. Frierson was a devout Presbyterian who loved a summer rainstorm, watching new growth break out of the winter soil, or hearing children recite their catechism from beginning to end for the very first time. On this April day, she rode to the local ...
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