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iamny planning, sponsored at various times by the International Association of Schools of Social Work, and the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID). She wrote a well received book in 1981: Not My Daughter: Facing up to Teenage Pregnancy, with Elizabeth Mooney. She also wrote many works on social work in relation to family planning, Her work in this field led to an award from Parent’s Magazine, which she shared with John D. Rockefeller III.

Her international work began when, as Children’s Bureau chief. Dr. Oettinger was the U.S. representative on the executive board of UNICEF. She was the U.S. delegate to the International Conference on Social Work in 1958 and chair of the U.S. contingent to the 1959 InterAmerican . Congress on Children, delegate to the International Study Conference on Child Welfare in Tokyo, and leader of the U.S. Delegation to the 1868 Congress on Population and Family Planning in Venezuela. She served as secretary of the White House Conference on Children and Youth in 1960, which developed legislative proposals on child abuse, programs for handicapped children and crucial issues in child and maternal health. Many late became law.

Dr. Oettinger moved to Carmel in 1983, where she continued writing about population problems and the welfare of children. She was chosen as “a pioneer in the 20th century,” for an oral history project, which remains with her professional papers in the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College.

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