A Right to ChildhoodWarring factions in the United States like to use children as weapons for their political agendas as Americans try to determine the role if any of the federal government in the lives of children. But what is the history of child welfare policy in the United States? What can we learn from the efforts to found the U. S. Children's bureau in 1903 and its eventual dismemberment in 1946? This is the first history of the Children's Bureau and the first in