What were the moral and social goals of the Child Savers? What were the positive and negative effects of their actions?
How did societal changes such as industrialization, urbanization, and immigration affect how children were viewed by society?
How were reform systems developed to socialize youth different for immigrants? What about for lower-class youth, girls, Blacks, and Indigenous youth?
When did the stage of “adolescence” emerge within the life course? What social factors led to the emergence of this stage of development?
What were the consequences of age segregation in schools and in the workplace? How does this practice contribute to the emergence of gangs and other age-related peer groups?
What does parens patriae mean in the context of addressing youthful misbehavior? What institutions resulted as an outgrowth of that philosophy?
What are the origins of the parens patriae doctrine in English law?
Describe the origins of the child welfare system within the juvenile justice context.
Apply the concept of intersectionality to the behavior of the Child Savers. How did the treatment of youth vary by intersections?
How did the rhetoric or “talk” of the early juvenile reforms compare to the reality or the “walk” of the actual institutions created for children and youth?
