Excerpt from The Child in the Foster Home, Vol. 1
This monograph is an attempt to give an honest account of the practical experiences of an actual agency in a limited area of the whole child welfare field.
It describes failures as well as successes.
It does not attempt to discuss general or ideal standards of child welfare. So far as standards are discussed at all the purpose is primarily to show those held by the State Charities Aid Association in the state of New York at the present time.
In the practical application of these standards a tendency to lower them is shown in particular instances due to a lack of public or private funds and agencies to provide boarding family care whenever this is best for the child.
The publishers believe that there has been a gain to the earnest student of the problems of free foster home care of children because the writers of this monograph have had an eye single to a literal account of and frank comment upon their own experiences under actual conditions in New York state.
However, these earnest students should recognize, as the writers and publishers of this monograph clearly do, that other records and discussions of experience are needed to give the present monograph true community perspective.
Especially is there further need of the true record of wider experiences for two purposes: first, to make clear the principles which should determine the relationship of both agency and free foster home to each other and to the child; second, to show how far three other forms of care, namely, adequate assistance to all mothers who could thus care for their own children, the boarding family home whenever best for the child, and the wise development of what the English call the "scattered home," can and should change the ratios of dependent children now cared for in institutions and in free family homes.
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