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The Mary Ellen abuse case launched the child protection movement.
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The NYSPCC was created.
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In 1912, the US Children's Bureau was created by a law signed by President William Howard Taft
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In 1921, the Sheppard-Towner Act, enacted by Congress, was passed in order to reduce infant and maternity mortality.
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It was discovered that thirty-two states had no services.
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1935, under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Social Security Act was passed
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Only 84 nongovernmental SPCCs were in existence.
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The government slowly started to take over the responsibility of protecting children.
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By this time the public was leaning on the government to stop child abuse.
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Over hree hundred nongovernmental charitable Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children were formed throughout the United States.
