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CHILD ABUSE: RECOGNITION ANDRESPONSE EXAM #1 QUESTIONS AND
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What are the Three Eras of Child Protection in America? - Answer-1. Before Child
Protection (1875)
2. Nongovernmental Protection Societies (1875-1962)
3. Modern Era (1962)
Colonial-1875: Before Child Protection - Answer-Intervention and Prevention.
- High mortality rate.
- Children were property and a burden.
- As industrialization arrived, people were wanting to leave small towns to the cities.
- Children were put to work and there were labor laws.
- 1775 - people were beginning to be prosecuted for child abuse.
1875-1962: NGO; Protection Society - Answer-NGOs and societies are getting together
with one mission: helping kids.
- Children have more protection in the workplace.
- Mary Ellen Wilson - raised in NY by her guardian in Hell's Kitchen.
- A religious missionary named Etta Wheeler visits the family and wants to rescue the
child.
- Etta Wheeler meets Henry Bergh, in charge of the ASPCA, and founded the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
- Burge referred wheeler to his particular lawyer: Elbridge Gary (who became the
society's president).
- Adopted Mary Ellen and became her guardian.
- 1912: Children's Bureau.
- Early models of foster homes.
- Juvenile courts are were established.
1962- Present: Modern Era - Answer-Modern Era of Modern Protection.
- Key indicator of the abuse is job loss.
- Social security act was for people that could not help themselves.
- 1960s: civil rights are beginning.
- The Battered Children Syndrome - Kempe.
- Reporting laws were enacted in 1964 in 4 states.
- By 1967, every state had a law stating that physicians are copyable if they do not
report.
- The 1980s: reporting laws expanding from just medical professionals to anybody
(citizens) who is suspicious of child abuse.
- Welfare Act was put into place and help start foster care.
- In the state of Texas, if you see a child being neglected then you are forced by law to
report the abuse.
, What was the world's first organization devoted entirely to child protection? - Answer-
New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NYSPCC)
When was the NYSPCC, the world's first organization devoted entirely to child
protection, founded? - Answer-1875
When was CPS founded? - Answer-1962
What ended the Nongovernmental Protection Societies era of child protection? -
Answer-The foundation of Child Protective Services in 1962.
Emergence of the Social Work Profession - Answer-1877 - Charity Organization Society
(COS) was established in NY, School of Social Work at Columbia University was
created, settlement of Toynbee Hall was created in 1884, quickly followed in America
with the Hull House in Chicago in 1886.
What was the first school of social work? - Answer-Columbia (School of Social Work at
Columbia University)
Who started organized child protection (1875-1962)? - Answer-Etta Wheeler working on
Mary Ellen Wilson's Case. She sought advice from Henry Bergh (founder of ASPCA),
and he referred her to his lawyer, Elbridge Gerry, to find a legal way to remove and
rescue Mary Ellen Wilson.
Who were the initial key players of organized child protection (1875-1962)? - Answer->
Mary Ellen Wilson: a 9-year-old living in Hell's Kitchen, one of NYC's worst tenements,
with her guardians who routinely beat and neglected her.
> Etta Wheeler: Religious missionary.
> Police: Wheeler called them and they declined to investigate.
> Charities: Lacked authority to intervene in the family.
> Henry Bergh: Founder of ASPCA.
> Elbridge Gerry: Bergh's Lawyer who drew up necessary papers then the judge
removed Mary Ellen from her guardians.
Who formed the Society of Protection to Children (SPCC) and what led to this? -
Answer-Etta Wheeler, Henry Bergh, and Elbridge Gerry formed the SPCC. The case of
Mary Ellen Wilson.
Know Henry Kempe and his paper, The Battered Child Syndrome - Answer-- Henry
Kempe played a pivotal role in the history of child abuse.
- He got into the issue of child abuse and neglect because of his innate concern for the
well-being of children.
> Saw recurring injuries that appeared to be inflicted by those who were raising them.
> Hypothesized that injuries were inflicted purposefully.
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