Child Welfare Work in California: A Study of Agencies and Institutions

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Department of Child-helping, Russell Sage Foundation, 1916 - Child welfare - 247 pages
 

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Page 223 - In counties having over 500,000 population, the judges of the circuit court shall, at such times as they shall determine, designate one or more of their number, whose duty it shall be to hear all cases coming under this act.
Page 186 - As to the children who for sufficient reasons must be removed from their own homes, or who have no homes, it is desirable that, if normal in mind and body and not requiring special training, they should be cared for in families whenever practicable. The carefully selected foster home is for the normal child the best substitute for the natural home.
Page 222 - An act to enforce the educational rights of children and providing penalties for the violation of the act...
Page 221 - That is found wandering and not having any Home or settled Place of Abode, or proper Guardianship, or visible Means of Subsistence; That is found destitute, either being an Orphan or having a surviving Parent who is undergoing Penal Servitude or Imprisonment; That frequents the Company of reputed Thieves...
Page 221 - Who is in need of proper and effective parental care or control and has no parent or guardian, or has no parent or guardian willing to exercise or capable of exercising such care or control, or has no parent or guardian actually exercising such care or control.
Page 233 - ... who shall, under the rules of said board, visit the homes and the institutions in which are children to whom state aid is being given or for whom aid is being asked, to obtain such information as the board may need in carrying out the provisions of this chapter.
Page 222 - Who habitually uses intoxicating liquor as a beverage or habitually smokes cigarettes or who habitually uses opium, cocaine, morphine or other similar drug, without the direction of a competent physician; or (16). Who from any cause is in danger of growing up to lead an idle, dissolute, or immoral life. The words "delinquent person...
Page 221 - Whose home by reason of neglect, cruelty or depravity of his parents or either of them, or on the part of his guardian, or on the part of the person in whose custody or care he may be, is an unfit place for such...
Page 222 - The superior court in every county of this state shall exercise the jurisdiction conferred by this act, and, while sitting in the exercise of its said jurisdiction, shall be known and referred to as the "juvenile court," and is hereinafter so referred to.
Page 222 - delinquent child' shall include any child under the age of eighteen years who violates any law of this state, or any ordinance of any town, city, county or city and county of this state defining crime...

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