Child Abuse

By arkattan

  • The New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics and Other Workingmen condemn child labor.

  • The New England Association of Farmers, Mechanics and Other Workingmen condemn child labor.

  • Early trade unions at the National Trades' Union Convention propose state minimum age laws for factory work

  • Massachusetts limits children to working 10 hours per day. Several states follow suit, but do not consistently enforce their laws.

  • There are ninety institutions for abused and neglected children in the U.S.

  • Charles Loring Brace founded the Children's Aid Society to take in children living on the street.

  • Working Men's Party proposes banning the employment of children under the age of 14

  • There are eight institutions for abused and neglected children in the U.S

    There are eight institutions for abused and neglected children in the U.S

  • The first National Convention of the American Federation of Labor passes a resolution calling on states to ban children under 14 from all gainful employment.

  • The total number of societies in the United States for the protection of children, or children and animals, was 161

  • The first White House Conference on the Care of Dependent Children declared that poverty alone should not be grounds for removing children from families.

  • The Child Welfare League of America was founded as the Bureau for Exchange of Information Among Child-Helping Organizations.

  • Founded by C. C. Carstens to act as a federation of 70 child services organizations.

  • 8.6 percent of mothers with children younger than 18 were in the work force.

  • The U.S. Supreme Court held that the government has broad authority to regulate the actions and treatment of children.

  • n a report examining the status of children's rights in the United States, Hillary Clinton, then a lawyer, wrote that "children's rights" was a "slogan in need of a definition.

  • 50 percent of women with children younger than three years of age were working.

  • 2,375 unaccompanied children were detained by the INS.

  • The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act is focused on the online collection of personal information by persons or entities under U.S. jurisdiction from children under 13 years of age.

  • The U.S. ratified this convention