Problems in Child Placing

so often does, Child Placing affords the greatest challenge in the scheme of modern social rehabilitation. No other problem has more lasting results in time or broader scope in the outcome. It is the inalienable right of every child to be provided with such conditions and circumstances as will foster the attainment of his highest development. His health, his education, his training, and happiness are all involved. Within him lies the vital force of his future citizenship and it will grow as the direct outcome of these factors acting and reacting upon him as an individual. If at maturity, society exacts the price of conformity to its traditions and laws, it must provide adequate protection for its children. It is their defender. Since society imposes responsibilities upon its citizens, these same, as children, must be taught and trained accordingly for their coming citizenship. Today child placing agencies are cognizant of much that had grown out of the former hit-and-miss methods of somehow tucking children away in this available home or that, without much concern