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Article: Child Saving
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- Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
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Child Saving
The child-saving movement had its roots in privately funded mid-nineteenth-century charitable organizations for the protection and benefit of children, such as the New York Children's Aid Society. At the movement's height, between 1890 and 1920, child savers worked in such diverse reform efforts as fighting child abuse, regulating childlabor, founding kindergartens, building playgrounds, establishing the juvenile court, campaigning for mothers'pensions, and reducing infant mortality rates. The child-saving movement began in the latter half of the nineteenth century as a large, active coalition of women's club members, philanthropists, and urban professionals. In England in ...