📚 Child Welfare

Books with child welfare on their catalogue record, first published between 1857 and 2013, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject child welfare in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 12,423 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The children of the poor	Jacob A. Riis	1892	27
	THE CHICAGO SCHOOL CRIMINOLOGY Volume 4	Clifford Robe Shaw	1930	19
	Nutrition, health, and safety for young children	Joanne Sorte	2010	14
	The maltreated child	Vincent J. Fontana	1964	11
	Working together in children's services	Damien Fitzgerald	2007	11
	Children in Britain	Great Britain. Central Office of Information. Reference Division.	1959	10
	Paid servant	E. R. Braithwaite	1962	10
	Safeguarding and Protecting Children in the Early Years	Reid, James	2013	10
	Somewhere a child is crying	Vincent J. Fontana	1973	9
	The Well-being of children in the UK	Jonathan Bradshaw	2005	9
	Thou shalt not be aware	Alice Miller	1984	8
	The welfare of children	Duncan Lindsey	1994	8
	Paediatrics and child health	Mary Rudolf	1999	8
	Children, Youth and Development	Nicola Ansell	2004	8
	Key issues in childhood and youth studies	Derek Kassem	2009	8
	Reformatory education	Henry Barnard	1857	7
	The care of destitute, neglected, and delinquent children	Homer Folks	1902	7
	Memoirs of the late Dr. Barnardo	Syrie Louise Elmsie Barnardo	1907	7
	The effectiveness of delinquency prevention programs	Helen Leland Witmer	1954	7
	Child care law	Caroline Ball	1984	7
	Child welfare	Kathleen Kufeldt	2003	7
	Children, Structure and Agency	G. K. Lieten	2008	7
	Deciding Children's Futures	Joyce Scaife	2012	7
	George Müller	Frederick G. Warne	1898	6
	Dr. Barnardo	John Herridge Batt	1905	6
	Charities for children in the city of Mexico	Albert Judson Steelman	1907	6
	The humane movement	Roswell Cheney McCrea	1910	6
	Protecting the pre-school child	Paul György	1965	6
	Children of Wax	Alexander McCall Smith	1989	6
	Beyond listening	Alison Clark	2005	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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