Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / Catherine E....
Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / Catherine E....
Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / Catherine E. Rymph.
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
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G 2020/0558
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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volume
Contents
Into the family life of strangers : the origins of foster family care -- The New Deal, family security, and the emergence of a public child welfare system -- Helping America's orphans of war -- Providing love and care : foster parents as parents -- The hard-to-place child : family pathology, race, a...
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Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2017]
Place of Publication
North Carolina
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
"In the 1930s, buoyed by the potential of the New Deal, child welfare reformers hoped to formalize and modernize their methods, partly through professional casework but more importantly through the loving care of temporary, substitute families. Today, however, the foster care system is widely criticized for failing the children and families it is i...
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Raising government children : a history of foster care and the American welfare state / Catherine E. Rymph.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-242) and index.
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©2017
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G 2020/0558
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74VKaZaQaOyg
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZaQaOyg
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ISBN
9781469635637 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1469635631 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781469635644 (paperback alkaline paper)
146963564X (paperback alkaline paper)
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362.73309730904
MMS ID
991024290909802626
