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.