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The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) was inspired by and modeled on The Boy Scouts Association, established by Robert Baden-Powell in Britain in 1908. In the early 1900s, several youth organizations were active, and many became part of the BSA (see Scouting in the United States).
In 2019, the Boy Scouts of America renamed its flagship program, Boy Scouts, to Scouts BSA to reflect its policy change allowing girls to join separate, gender-specific troops. [3] In 2023, BSA agreed to pay $2.46 billion to settle claims by some 82,000 former Boy Scouts who said they had been sexually abused by BSA officials and volunteers.
The American Boy Scouts (ABS) (officially American Boy Scout), later the United States Boy Scouts (officially United States Boy Scout), was an early American Scouting organization formed by William Randolph Hearst in 1910, following on from the formation of the Scouting movement by Robert Baden-Powell between 1903 and 1907.
By the time of The Boy Scouts Association's first census in 1910, it had over 100,000 Scouts. [30] Scouting for Boys was published in England later in 1908 in book form. The book is now the fourth-bestselling title of all time, [31] and was the basis for the later American version of the Boy Scout Handbook. [32]
DALLAS (AP) — After more than a century, Boy Scouts of America is rebranding as Scouting America, another major shakeup for an organization that once proudly resisted change. Founded 114 years ...
A major change comes five years after the organization first allowed girls to join.
The Boy Scouts national organization kept so-called "perversion files" to alert national leaders when a man trying to associate with a troop had a background of sexual abuse of children.
E. Urner Goodman, Official Report of the National Training Conference of Scout Executives of the Boy Scouts of America vol.2, pages 161-162, September 12, 1922 In spite of these concerns, the WWW was welcomed with two other Camp Fraternities to be "Official Experiments" of the Boy Scouts of America. The other two groups were the Tribe of Gimogash and Ku-Ni-Eh who were active in as many if not ...