Mental Development of Children in Foster Homes

Abstract

* Recommended by George D. Stoddard, accepted for publication by Carl Murchison of the Editorial Board, and received in the Editorial Office, December 9, 1935.

¹ The writer wishes to express deep appreciation to Dr. Mae Habenicht, Superintendent of the Bureau of Child Welfare, for approving and encouraging such a study of foster children, and for her helpful suggestions; to the Iowa Board of Control of State Institutions which has at all times coöperated in making possible research studies of state wards; to Mr. H. A. Mitchell, Superintendent of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home from which the children reported in this study were placed; to Miss Marie Skodak, assistant psychologist of the Board of Control, who made a number of the examinations and who rendered material assistance in setting up this study; and to Dr. George D. Stoddard, Director of the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, who has made possible this study.

Notes

* Recommended by George D. Stoddard, accepted for publication by Carl Murchison of the Editorial Board, and received in the Editorial Office, December 9, 1935.

¹ The writer wishes to express deep appreciation to Dr. Mae Habenicht, Superintendent of the Bureau of Child Welfare, for approving and encouraging such a study of foster children, and for her helpful suggestions; to the Iowa Board of Control of State Institutions which has at all times coöperated in making possible research studies of state wards; to Mr. H. A. Mitchell, Superintendent of the Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home from which the children reported in this study were placed; to Miss Marie Skodak, assistant psychologist of the Board of Control, who made a number of the examinations and who rendered material assistance in setting up this study; and to Dr. George D. Stoddard, Director of the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station, who has made possible this study.