Judiciary: Child Abandonment, 1951

File — Box: LG 3, Folder: 16

Identifier: CAC_CC_048_1_3_16_0000

Scope and Contents

Topics include abuse of child welfare programs; welfare relief rolls; delinquent fathers; prohibition of an individual from traveling interstate or foreign commerce in connection with abandonment of his dependent child; Steed Bill dealing with child abandonment; study of fathers in families receiving aid to dependent children; comparison of Oklahoma to other states of children receiving aid; Tulsa Tribune article on rolls; and Saturday Evening Post article. Correspondents include Oklahoma Public Expenditures Council; Steve Stahl; Judge John Warren Hill; Wirt Franklin; Andrew Jacobs; Sam Hobbs; William L. Springer; Oklahoma Farm Bureau; Cleveland M. Bailey; Harold C. Ostertag; Jenkin Lloyd Jones; Stanley Draper; James E. Berry, Lt. Governor of Oklahoma; and Jacob Panken.

Dates

Creation: 1951

Creator

From the Collection: Steed, Thomas Jefferson, U.S. House of Representatives from Oklahoma's 4th district (1949-1981), 1904-1983 (Person)

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