The Legacy of Jane Addams - CCNR
The Legacy of Jane Addams - CCNR
The Legacy of Jane Addams - CCNR
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<strong>Jane</strong> <strong>Addams</strong>:Civic HousekeepingSituation: Tenement girl in childbirth -- her mother atwasherwoman job, no money for doctor, neighbors wouldn’thelp because unmarried.<strong>Jane</strong> <strong>Addams</strong>: This doing things that we don’t know how to dois going too far. Why did we let ourselves be rushed intomidwifery?Julia Lathrop: If we have to begin to hew down to the line <strong>of</strong> ourignorance, for goodness’ sake don’t let us begin at thehumanitarian end. To refuse to respond to a poor girl in thethroes <strong>of</strong> childbirth would be a disgrace to us forevermore. IfHull-House does not have its roots in human kindness, it is nogood at all.<strong>Addams</strong>, <strong>Jane</strong>.(1935). My friend Julia Lathrop. As quoted in Elshtain,Jean B. (2002). <strong>Jane</strong> <strong>Addams</strong> and the dream <strong>of</strong> Americandemocracy: A life., p. 93
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