Beginning Around 1890, Members of the Progressive Movement Advocated a Variety

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Beginning around 1890, members of the Progressive movement advocated a variety of political, economic, and social reforms. They were genuinely concerned about the economic disparities, social disorders, and excesses of industrialization, particularly as they affected children. Progressives denounced the evils of child labor and pushed for legislation banning the practice. They were likewise appalled by the violent and exploitive conditions of reform schools. The fact that orphans were thrown into reform schools for the uncontrollable circumstance of having no parents shocked the Progressives’ moral values. Taking up the plight of the children of the urban immigrant poor, they argued that these children were not bad, but were corrupted by the environment in which they grew up.
-The shift in thinking at the end of 19ᵗʰ century regarding children meant that parents

A) were no longer considered to have sole and exclusive legal responsibility over their children.
B) were considered to have sole and exclusive legal responsibility over their children.
C) were legally responsible for their children's behavior.
D) must provide for their children.