Search

The Carnegie Council on Children (CCC) was established in 1972 by the Corporation to undertake a broad investigation of what American society was doing to and for children, and what government, business, and other organizations and individuals could do to protect and support family life. The Council, which ended its work in 1979, consisted of 11 persons drawn from a wide variety of disciplines, including law, economics, anthropology, child development, history, and pediatrics. Its chairman and idrector was Kenneth Keniston, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Human Development at MIT. Five major report's emerged from the Council's deliberations. The first, an overall analysis of the position of children in American society, entitled All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure, was issued in 1977, together with policy recommendations for ways in which children's' needs could be met in the coming years. Other books issued by the Council included Small Futures: inequality, children, and the limits of liberal reform, by Richard H. de Lone, and The Unexpected Minority: handicapped children in America, by John Gliedman and William Roth. (from 1979 Annual Report)