Lessons Learned from the Story of Mary Ellen Wilson

If you are a witness to today's child abuse, what will you do? You will turn your head, it seems not your job, you will intervene immediately, or report abusers to the authorities. Between 1869 and 1870, a woman named Charlotte Feeling cried at the scream of a child, she had not heard of it before, according to the shape of the body on that day, 5, Over 6 years old, the handicapped foot was wrapped in a whip stripe and the body was struck.

In 1874, a 9 year old Mary Allen Wilson lived in one of the worst residential areas in New York City where Hell's Kitchen, organized child protection work stood out from the rescue. Mary Allen is often beaten and ignored. A religious missionary named Etta Wheeler learned about the child 's anguish and decided to save her. Wheeler consulted the police, but they refused to investigate. Next, Wheeler asks for help from children to help charity, but they lack the ability to intervene in their families. Of course, there was nothing like child protection service at the time, and the juvenile court was not established for the quarter century. Eventually, Wheeler sought advice from Henry Berg, a leading founder of the American Animal Atrocities Action Association. Berg asked lawyer Elbrecht to find a legal mechanism to save the child. 12 years

Woodrow Wilson married Alan Lewis Axon at Savannah, Georgia on June 24, 1885. When Wilson traveled in Atlanta's legal affairs in 1883 and worked, he fell in love with a skilled artist and elder daughter Ellen of a church presbyterian pastor. Ellen is an educated woman and her cousin is afraid that she will not get married as he feels that "men do not like smart women." The couple has three daughters, and Wilson relies on Allen to make a big contribution to the co-decision.