The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect is a national center established by the Department of Health and Human Services, an agency of the Federal government of the United States. It concentrates on research and publications regarding child abuse and neglect, administering research on these topics performed under government contract.
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“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)
“My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.”
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“The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.”
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—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)
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—Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)