Treatment: Methods Employed by Organized Charity in the Rehabilitation of Families

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Charity organization Department of the Russell Sage foundation, 1918 - Charities - 15 pages
 

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Page 4 - ... her. This was treatment reaching one sole element in the family life — hunger and cold relieved by the family earnings, supplemented by a weekly dole. After a year, instead of being restored to normal life which should have been the goal of any sound plan of treatment, the family was more dependent than ever, because two other elements, the woman's health and the moral welfare of the children, had been wholly disregarded. Both suffered from the neglect of this ineffective charity. The problem...
Page 7 - They are merely channels through which the charity of a community may flow from its people to its poverty, with least waste and with greatest efficiency.
Page 7 - Societies are only devices which men have created in order to help them to be charitable more effectively.

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