Science in the service of children, 1893-1935

Introduction: Three movements, one goal

Save the child and save the nation : the rise of social feminism and social research

G. Stanley Hall and the child study movement

Scientific child rearing, organized motherhood, and parent education

Social welfare reformers and reform-minded scientists

The Children's Bureau under Julia Lathrop : government at its best

From juvenile delinquency research to child guidance

Better crops, better pigs, better children : the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station

The children's decade

Child development research : preventive politics

Out of step with his times : Arnold Gesell and the Yale Clinic

The child guidance movement : another approach to preventive politics

Child guidance becomes child psychiatry

The Children's Bureau under Grace Abbott : uphill all the way

Epilogue: What happened to the early movements? : the child development field after World War II.