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Index Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations and page numbers followed by t indicate tables. abuse, 77, 99, 183 Act for Better Child Care. See MondaleBrademas Bill admissions: age of child at time of, 58; committee , 13–14, 79–80, 205–6; coordinated by social workers, 140–42; following death of spouse, 48t, 107–9, 119–21; multiple times, 61–62, 222n140; by placing party, 68–69; process of, 141–42, 168, 190; restrictions on, 37; temporary vs. regular, 54. See also records, admission and dismissal adolescents, 90, 96–100, 189–90, 202. See also indenture; placing out system; runaways adoption: of orphans, 5, 6, 89, 90, 121t, 126t; parents’ attitudes towards, 54, 91, 92t, 112; racial differences in, 93, 121t; return of children after, 90, 168–69 advisory boards, 26–27 African American community, 24, 181–82, 190; as donors to HCC, 20, 184–86, 187; leaders in, 27, 171–73, 184–88; population statistics in Pittsburgh, 40, 52, 161 African American families, 52, 62, 116–19, 181, 203; child labor in, 59–60; forms of, 118–19, 122–23. See also fathers; migration African American institutions, 3, 37–39, 161, 174, 189–92. See also Allegheny Institute of Avery College, Coleman Home for Colored Boys, Davis Home for Colored Children; Fairfax Baby Home age of child: at admission, 57, 58; at dismissal , 58, 59, 115 Aid to Dependent Children. See social welfare Albany Orphan Asylum, 80, 110 Allegheny City Home. See almshouse Allegheny Day Nursery, 29, 33, 34–35, 196, 201. See also day nurseries Allegheny Institute of Avery College. See Avery College Allegheny Widow’s Home Association of Pittsburgh, 37 almshouses, 35–37, 238n4; Allegheny City Home, 160; Woodville, 36. See also Sixty-Day Law apprenticeships, 56, 89, 97; forced, 94, 127. See also indenture Association for the Improvement of Social Conditions in the Hill District. See Urban League of Pittsburgh Avery, Charles, 174–75 Avery College, 39, 174–75, 191, 240n60 babies. See infants Barnardo, Thomas, 76 Baybutt, Mrs. (HCC staff), 149–50 Beighel, Elizabeth (HCC staff), 168 Ramey_Child text.indd 263 2/15/12 10:12 AM 264 index benevolence, 12, 140; as voluntary work, 23, 25, 133, 140–42, 195; vs. social control, 3, 14 Bidwell Presbyterian Church, 173, 185–88. See also African American community, as donors binding out. See indenture Blair, Julia F. (HCC manager), 77, 159–61, 162, 185 boarding fees, 69–74, 81, 90 boarding houses. See housing Board of Public Charities, 135, 155. See also Pennsylvania, Department of Welfare Bonsteel, Ruth (HCC staff), 237n108 breadwinner. See family wage, breadwinner Brighton Road Presbyterian Church, 187 Brunot, Mary Hogg, 18. See also Women’s Christian Association Bureau of Labor, 152–53 Butler, Elizabeth Beardsley, 134 Byington, Margaret, 134 Caldwell, James, 1, 5, 102–3, 104, 108, 128–30, 194–95 Campbell, Elizabeth (UPOH manager), 31, 75 case work. See social work Catholic church: African-Americans in, 39; orphanages of, 37, 39, 218n14; sentiment against, 39–40, 164. See also St. Paul’s Orphan Asylum Charities and the Commons, 175 charity: child care as, 29, 45, 69–70, 198– 201, 203; -seeking, 73, 78, 196; vs. public responsibility, 7, 26, 178–79, 198–203 Chicago Nursery and Half-Orphan Asylum, 105 child care: and family crisis, 6–8, 9, 52, 80; historiography of, 3–4; institutions , 7, 34–41; as labor, 4, 145–57; as modern daycare, 2, 62, 198–203; public funding of, 7, 26, 178–79, 198–203; in United States compared to peer countries , 8, 198–99, 200–201, 243n17; use of orphanages as, 1, 43, 116, 194; as a women’s issue, 4, 29, 130, 203 child care practice and policy: board payment , 72–74; children’s individuality, 75–76, 137–38; education, 166–60; family visits, 81–84; hair cutting, 87–88, 137; healthcare, 84–86, 134, 139, 143; parents’ impact on, 2, 83, 86; record keeping, 98–99; silence at meals, 155; staff impact on, 155–57. See also reform child care workers. See staff child labor, 6–7, 28, 59–60, 106, 115, 154. See also indenture Children’s Aid Society of Allegheny County, 141 Children’s Bureau, U.S., 22, 133 Children’s Commission (PA 1923–27), 8. See also Pennsylvania, state of Children’s Law (PA 1883). See Sixty-Day Law Children’s Service Bureau of Pittsburgh, 134–35, 137, 141, 191 Children’s Temporary Home, 105 children with special needs: “defective” label, 7, 8; homes for, 37–38 child rescue, 43...