Child welfare : England 1872-1989
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Child welfare : England 1872-1989
Routledge, c1994
Available at 46 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Child Welfare 1872-1989 is the first comprehensive book on the history of social policy and child welfare from the 1870s to the present. It offers a full narrative of the development of social services for children, covering a range of topics including infant life protection and welfare, sexuality, child guidance, medical treatment, war time evacuation, and child poverty. Equally importantly the book studies the attitudes to policy-makers towards children. It reveals the way in which children have been viewed both as victims of and threats to the society in which they lived.
Table of Contents
Preface, Acknowledgements, INTRODUCTION: BODIES AND MINDS, VICTIMS AND THREATS, AND INVESTMENTS, Part I The emergence of the child, c.1800-94, Part II From rescue and reform to 'children of the nation', c.t872-1918, Part III Minds and bodies: contradiction, tension and integration, 1918-45, Part IV Children of the Welfare State, 1945-89, Notes and references, Bibuography, Index
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