Mothers of Misery : Child Abandonment in Russia /

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At the height of its operation in the second half of the nineteenth century, the central foundling home in Moscow was receiving 17,000 children each year. The home dispatched most to wet nurses and foster care in the countryside, where at any one time it supervised over 40,000 children in Moscow pro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ransel, David L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1988]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Foundlings.
Foster home care.
Abandoned children.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Enfants trouves > URSS > Histoire.
Enfants abandonnes > URSS > Histoire.
Foster home care > Soviet Union > History.
Foundlings > Soviet Union > History.
Abandoned children > Soviet Union > History.
Soviet Union.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND FIGURES
  • LIST OF TABLES
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • ONE. Introduction
  • TWO . Illegitimacy and Infanticide in Early Modern Russia
  • THREE. "You Too Shall Live": The Betskoi System
  • FOUR. The Era of the Turning Cradle in Europe and Russia
  • FIVE. Public Criticism and Piecemeal Reform
  • SIX. A Break with the Past
  • SEVEN. Sex Ratios of the Abandoned Children
  • EIGHT. The Abandoning Mothers
  • NINE. Fosterage: The First One Hundred Years
  • TEN . The Foundling Market: A Network of Exchange between Town and Village
  • ELEVEN. Geography of the Fosterage System
  • TWELVE. Social and Medical Consequences of Fosterage
  • THIRTEEN. Conclusions
  • APPENDIX
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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