Love in Action: The Story of the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina (Classic Reprint)

ISBN-10: 1528096576
ISBN-13: 9781528096577
Series: Love in Action
Pages: 264
Language: English
Published: 2017-11-10
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Author: Weston Cosby Reed

Description

Excerpt from Love in Action: The Story of the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina It is agreed by all leading welfare authorities that children's homes such as ours are absolutely essential in this generation. Hence, an ever-increasing support by our great denomination 1s a must if we are to continue to blaze trails m this important phase of Christian service. Keep in mind that your children's homes were first in Mother's Aid in 1920: four years later the North Carolina Legislature appropriated for this worthy cause. Then a few years later the Federal government entered this field of service on a matching basis with the states and called it Aid to Dependent Children, or This action relieved the Baptists of the major burden of Mother's Aid. But there are still certain cases that cannot meet government standards. We now serve with financial aid an average of about sixty children each year while they continue to live with their own mothers. We were also among the first of the. Children's institutions to adopt the Foster Home Program, and we had the first trained social worker in any of the Southern child care agencies. In fact we had one of the first trained social workers in North Carolina. She entered this field in 1923 to supervise the Mother's Aid Program. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.