History of Child & Family Policy
in the United States

Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1983

Writing in The Children's Cause, Gilbert Steiner says, "A children's policy will be successful enough if it concentrates on ways to compensate demonstrably unlucky children whose bodies or minds are sick or whose families are unstable or in poverty" (1976, p. 255). Reasonable people disagree whether the population outlined by Steiner should be the only one of concern to federal policy.