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Roman Catholic Child Welfare In The United States, Lewis W. Spitz
Roman Catholic Child Welfare In The United States, Lewis W. Spitz
Concordia Theological Monthly
Roman Catholic child welfare is concerned with the dependent child, including the delinquent child, which for one reason or another has gone wrong. Roman Catholic social workers recognize the change that has taken place from the days when education was the distinctive function of the home-first, on the mother's knee, and then beside the father in the fields to the present time, when this function has largely been institutionalized and schools for the most part exercise this responsibility.