The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim.

  • Nathan Oppenheim
Date:
1898
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Credit: The development of the child / by Nathan Oppenheim. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is now so eagerly taken up by a high class of women, this calling would be popular. But in addition, there are many additional reasons, based upon the opportu- nity for exercising affection, for forming much more permanent ties, for having a very definite influence in the world, why an even higher grade of women would gladly assume this calling as a life work. Most of all, if the applicants for positions as foster-mothers received an equally valuable training as trained nurses enjoy, the results of their work might gratify very high expectations. That children brought up under substitute care can have a successful training has been proved by the course pursued at Girard College. Although this institution has the disadvantage of great size, as well as the fact that its charges are not accepted in in- fancy, thus depriving them of the good effects of careful and systematic oversight in their earliest years, nevertheless, the general methods of govern- ment are so superior to what one usually finds in in- stitutions for orphans, that the results are, after all, not surprising. Children may not be accepted in infancy, but, on the other hand, their residence in the institution may continue until they are of eigh- teen years of age. Their guardians and instructors are of a high class, and on account of their perma- nent and responsible positions, as well as their men- tal superiority, come to have a real interest in the