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1932 › Franklin D. Roosevelt (Democratic) › Child welfare and schooling
Maintain the Children's Bureau; keep children in school to sixteen; expand vocational education
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Solution
Continue the Children's Bureau and federal child-welfare work (no economies there); federal government as a clearing house and incentive for higher state standards; children in school to age sixteen; more vocational education — without taking from the states their control of education.
Rationale
Malnutrition among the unemployed's children affects their whole lives; the professions are oversupplied and the educational system is "devised too greatly for academic training."
Statements (2)
Attempts have been made to cut the appropriations for child welfare work. It seems to me that this is the last place in which we should seek to economize.
The last question relates to keeping children in school to the age of sixteen. I am in favor of that. Furthermore, I go along with the thought that we must increase vocational education for those children who otherwise would not receive adequate training.
Follow-through
partial
The Children's Bureau administered Social Security's maternal and child health and crippled children's titles (1935); the National Youth Administration (1935) kept students in school with part-time work; the CCC took the 18–25 cohort. Compulsory schooling to sixteen remained a state matter.
Mechanisms
| Date | Type | Name | Effect | Consistent? | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-08-14 | statute | Social Security Act Titles IV and V; National Youth Administration charted on: High school graduates as percent of 17-year-olds | yes | Statement on Signing the Social Security Act. |
Assessments
The NYA employed and trained hundreds of thousands of teenagers and helped them stay in school.
The National Youth Administration (NYA), an agency of the WPA, trained and employed hundreds of thousands of teenagers and made it possible for many more young people, including the future playwright Arthur Miller, to work their way through college.
Other positions on this issue
- Federal aid to states for child protection and health; continued White House conferences on children, homes and illiteracy — Herbert Hoover, 1932 directional_stance
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