Discuss how the supposedly benevolent intentions of the “child-saving” movement could be alternately viewed as self-serving initiatives during a period of threat to the middle and upper classes. Given...

Discuss how the supposedly benevolent intentions of the “child-saving” movement could be alternately viewed as self-serving initiatives during a period of threat to the middle and upper classes.

Given its basis in the precedent of parens patriae, debate whether the juvenile court took on too much responsibility, and the extent to which its all-inclusive mission is related to the court’s difficulties today.