Discuss the child saving movement
What will be an ideal response?
• In 1816, prominent New Yorkers formed the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism. Although they concerned themselves with shutting down taverns, brothels, and gambling parlors, they also were -concerned that the moral training of children of the dangerous classes was inadequate.
• Soon other groups concerned with the plight of poor children began to form. Their focus was on extending government control over youthful activities (drinking, -vagrancy, and delinquency) that had previously been left to private or family control.
• These activists became known as child savers. Prominent among them were penologist Enoch Wines, Judge Richard Tuthill, Lucy Flowers, of the Chicago Women's Association, Sara Cooper, of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, and Sophia Minton, of the New York Committee on Children.
• Poor children could become a financial burden, and the child savers believed these children presented a threat to the moral fabric of society.
• Child saving organizations influenced state legislatures to enact laws giving courts the power to commit children who were runaways or criminal offenders to specialized institutions.
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What will be an ideal response?
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