Human Services

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Human Services

Historical evolution of the human response to human needs

The evolution of human response to human needs in the United States has been greatly determined by changing economic and social conditions (Trattner , 1999 . In the early the years the United States was a country with dominated by an agricultural economy . Nevertheless in the following years the industry rapidly evolved and became characterized by specialization , industrialization and urbanization . This meant that employees depended and provided

entirely for themselves because of the sustainable flow of income . Even then from this early years communities still recognized and made it their responsibility to assist those in need especially where family efforts had failed . The assistance was channeled through workhouses and relief systems that were poor and not well thought-out (Trattner , 1999 . Slowly procedures to provide aid in a more organized manner were adopted generally through offering cash to particular categories of the poor . In a variety of states pension laws for single mothers were adopted to enable their children to stay with them instead of being taken to foster homes or other institutions . By mid twenties some communities had started to experiment with programmes that offered aid to the aged , the blind and generally disabled people

In the meantime , the Government had begun to become aware that risks in the rapidly changing industrialized economy would be best countered through the initialization of social insurance as a means to catering for public welfare...