Child Policy Priorities Have Changed in the Last 100 Years

question 59

Multiple Choice

Child policy priorities have changed in the last 100 years.In the late1800s, the main concern for U.S.policy makers was:

• A)working conditions for children
• B)poverty
• C)preventing moral and sexual transgressions of children
• D)child abuse

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