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by Karen M. Staller (Author)
New York's Newsboys is a lively historical account of Charles Loring Brace's founding and development of the Children's Aid Society to combat a newly emerging social problem, youth homelessness, during the nineteenth century. Poor children slept on the docks, pilfered, and peddled cheap wares to survive, activities which frequently landed them in prison-like juvenile asylums. Brace offered a radical alternative, the Newsboys' Lodging House. From there he launched a network of additional programs, each respecting his clients' free will, contrasting with the policing interventions favored by other reformers. Over four decades Brace built a comprehensive child welfare agency which sought to alleviate suffering, prevent delinquency, and divert children from a life of poverty.
Karen M. Staller, PhD, JD, is an Associate Professor at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. She is author of Runaways: How the Sixties Counter Culture Shaped Today's Policy and Practices; co-author of Seeking Justice in Child Sexual Abuse: Shifting Burdens and Sharing Responsibilities (with Kathleen Faller) and co-editor of the journal, Qualitative Social Work. Staller resides in Ann Arbor, Michigan with a pampered dog and a pair of sociable guinea pigs.
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