The Failed Century of the Child

Judith (Bowling Green State University, Ohio) Sealander

Cambridge University Press, 2003

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Between 1900 and 2000 an unprecedented American effort to use state regulation to guarantee health, opportunity, and security to the country's children failed to reach its goals. The achievements envisioned were enormously ambitious and reflected entrenched but self-contradictory values and Americans' inconsistent expectations of government, which this book explores.

ISBN-13
9780521828789
ISBN-10
0521828783
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2003
Publication date
2003-10-27
Pages
386
Dimensions
229x152x25
Weight
625