What was the children's aid society? a. the organization, created by the quakers, to prevent children from being abused by punishing the parents by criminally prosecuting them. b. a child saving organization that took children from the streets of large cities and placed them with farm families on the prairie. c. a child saving organization that took children away from abusive parents and placed them in shelters. d. the organization, created by the child savers, whose primary focus was on preventing delinquency by picking up children and placing them in reform schools?

The correct answer to this question is the letter B. a child saving organization that took children from the streets of large cities and placed them with farm families on the prairie..

Children’s Aid or previously known as Children’s Aid Society is a private child well-being nonprofit organization in New York founded by Charles Loring Brace in 1853. The organization assists, gives support and helps to protect and safeguard infants, children, and youth who are experiencing mistreat, maltreat and abuse physically, mentally, emotionally and sexually through abandonment. They detach children from risk or unsafe conditions and take them into its care.