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Article: New York Children's Aid Society
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- Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
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New York Children's Aid Society
The New York Children's Aid Society (CAS) was founded in 1853 by Charles Loring Brace, a Connecticut-born minister who had moved to New York City in 1848. Brace was shocked by the thousands of vagrant children he saw on the city's streets, and by the city's practice of incarcerating them in juvenile and adult prisons. He argued that vagrant children were not criminals and that no institution could care for them as effectively as a family home
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an assertion that has become one of the primary principals of modern child welfare.
Soon after its founding, the CAS established a series of industrial schools, which provided academic and job education to ...