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Abstract THE NEWLY INSTALLED Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, was recently taken to task for his nostalgia about a time in American history when needy children could always rely on the local, private orphanage for assistance (Los Angeles Times. November 18, 1994:1). To resolve the expanding crisis of babies having babies (usually in poverty), Mr Gingrich proposed stopping all "government" benefits for teenaged mothers and using the savings for orphanages. So controversial have been Mr Gingrich's musings against the federal government's participation in "charitable" enterprises that even the venerable icon of American popular culture, Dr Seuss's "The Grinch" (no relation to Mr Gingrich), has been enlisted in the cause of protest (Newsweek. December 26, 1994: cover). Regardless of political ideologies, however, there is one positive point to Mr Gingrich's invective: it allows a reconsideration of the historical and contemporary problems of orphaned and needy children and, more broadly, References 1. US Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Benevolent Institutions, 1910 . Washington, DC: Goverment Printing Office; 1913:108. 2. Folks H. The Care of the Destitute, Neglected and Delinquent Children . New York, NY: Charities Review; 1902. 3. Warner AG. American Charities: A Study in Philanthropy and Economics . New York, NY: Thomas Y. Crowell and Co; 1894:202-238. 4. Addams J. Twenty Years at Hull House . New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing Co Inc; 1911. 5. Wald L. The House on Henry Street . New York, NY: Holt Rinehart & Winston; 1915. 6. Folks H. Public Health and Welfare: The Citizen's Responsibility . New York, NY: MacMillan Publishing Co Inc; 1958. 7. Rothman DJ. The Discovery of the Asylum: Social Order and Disorder in the New Republic . Glenview, Ill: Scott Foresman & Co; 1971:206-236. 8. Holt MI. The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America . Lincoln, Neb: University of Nebraska Press; 1992. 9. Zmora N. Orphanages Reconsidered: Child Care Institutions in Progressive Era Baltimore . Philadelphia, Pa: Temple University Press; 1994:7-11. 10. Meckel RA. Save the Babies: American Public Health Reform and the Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1850-1929 . Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1990:40-159.
Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine – American Medical Association
Published: Jun 1, 1995
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