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Rappahannock News
Published Thursday Morning at
Washington, Rappahannock
County, Virginia
Dial Washington 2851
LUCY CATHERINE BOWIE
Publisher
Entered as second-class mail matter at the post office at Washington, Virginia.
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20th Century Social Work
; By Mrs. Elizabeth Buntin
Last week I told you about the development of social work in the 39th century. But at the beginning of the 20th century people began to change their minds. Large numbers of children were forced to live in almshouses because of the poverty of their parents, and people began to feel that some form of financial aid should be given to family groups in order to keep them together. They had found out that earlier theories about individuals being reeponsible for their failure did not apply to children and that old people could not always be blamed for not being able to save up enough for their old age. People began to feel that the government should take more responsibility for the support of its needy citizens. It was not only a protection to society to see that everyone
had ^nough income to keep from starving, but since a citizen was
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