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unusual facts about Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children



The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Responding to a request for a donation for the purchase of a bus by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, August Heckscher donated a Manhattan property on Fifth Avenue from 104th to 105th Street that opened as The Heckscher Foundation for Children

Thomas C. Acton

Action was a founding member of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and Children as well as a member of the Geographical and New York Historical Society.


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Gina Ford

In 2007, she wrote to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and accused fellow child-care expert Claire Verity of “child abuse” for methods used in a Channel 4 series called Bringing Up Baby.