Word: aids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting director of welfare for the City of Cambridge, who is responsible for 2,229 cases under Aid to Dependent Children, Old Age Assistance, Disability Assistance and General Relief, told me last fall that the welfare department, despite the intimate relationship between case and case worker, should not involve itself in matters of family planning or birth control. He justified, under the aegis of "privacy," the prohibition on social workers' discussion of birth control with clients. He could not enlarge up his philosophy of privacy, a philosophy not often associated with the welfare department. He intimated that even...
...acting director stood over me nervously as I questioned one of his subordinates, the director of social workers for Aid to Dependent Children. This young woman, responsible for perhaps 1,500 families, would not state whether there was a policy on family planning or not. She was extremely defensive and would not even discuss whether her social workers, when asked, would refer the woman to her family doctor. I asked whether, in lieu of policy, a tacit prohibition arose; she would not answer...
...reply to the article on Thursday, April 25, about financial aid at Radcliffe, I would like to make clear our policy...
Radcliffe does not base the admission or rejection of applicants on financial criteria. In fact, financial aid decisions are made after the Committee on Admissions has finished its deliberations, a fact which your article acknowledged...
Therefore, any decerase in the number of applicants offered financial aid for the fall of 1968 could not be due to any conscious attempt to limit the number of aid candidates who would then be offered larger stipends. Nancy J. McIntire Director of Financial Aid...