What Was the Purpose of the Society for the Prevention

question 37

Multiple Choice

What was the purpose of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children? ​

• A)To prevent delinquency by picking up children and placing them in reform schools
• B)To take children from the streets of large cities and placed them with farm families on the prairie
• C)To remove abused and neglected children from their homes and assist the court in making placement decisions
• D)To place abused children on orphan trains to be sent West

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