American Scope of Child Welfare Liked in England

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 14

American Scope of Child Welfare Liked in England

LONDON — A tribute to the leadership which tho United States has taken in giving a broad and comprehensive delinition to the term "child welfare" was paid by Mr Edward Fuller, publicity secretary o±' the Save tho Children Fund, in the course of a recent talk broadcast from liere. Thero is, lie said, as yet no official definition of child welfare in England except the narrowly limited one . employed in the title of the Maternity and Child Welfare Act whiclr laid all its emphasis on health"But thoso actually cngaged in the various phases of the work give it a wide interpretation which may be summed up in the words of Miss. Grace Abbott, for many years chief of the United States Children V Bureau— 'All activities which proniote the well-being of children.' - "A list of the activities which fall within the- sphere of child welfare, compiled by the United States Children 's Bureau," he saidf "comprises the relations of parent and child (and that ineludes such questions as marriage and divorce and adoption and illegitimacy), guardianship, offenses against the child, all the multifarious phases of health, and of education, and of the employment of children, and of provision for the delinqnent and the neglected and the defective -child. "