Statistical Series, Issues 51-75

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Page 7 - Act as amended in 1962 states that "child welfare services means public social services which supplement, or substitute for parental care and supervision for the purpose of (1) preventing or remedying, or assisting in the solution of problems which may result in the neglect, abuse, exploitation, or delinquency of children...
Page 3 - Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi...
Page 35 - The number of delinquency cases handled by juvenile courts was somewhat larger (603,000) since the same child may have been referred more than once during the year. Delinquency cases comprise about four-fifths of all types of juvenile court cases. These data include traffic violations wherever the juvenile court has jurisdiction in such cases. Incomplete national data on traffic cases, collected in...
Page 21 - The estimated number of different children involved in these cases was somewhat lower (416,000), since the same child may have been referred more than once during the year. These children represent 1.7 percent of all children aged 10 through 17 in the country.
Page 17 - State to extend and improve services for promoting the health of mothers and children especially in rural areas and areas suffering from economic distress.
Page 23 - ... in public training schools for delinquent children on June 30, 1958. This is a 9 percent increase over 1956 with increases occurring in every region in the country. The average length of stay of children in these institutions was 9.7 months; for boys, 9.3 months and for girls, 12 months. Thirty-one percent of the children committed to the training schools during 1958 or returned to them during the year for violating aftercare regulations, had been there at some time before (returnee rate). Over...
Page 19 - State law and often are different for courts in different States and sometimes for courts within the same State. This affects the number of cases reported, and consequently the comparability of the reports for the various courts.
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